But is it possible to have a scalar for each "fixed_name" assigned the value of "value"? I suppose a better representation of the hash would be: 
$VAR1 = 'random_name                         ';
$VAR2 = {
          'Fixed_name1     ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          },
          'Fixed_name2   ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          }
        };
$VAR3 = 'random_Name                                    ';
$VAR4 = {
          'Fixed_name1       ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          },
          'Fixed_name2   ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          }
        };

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The fixed names are always going to be the same but there will be hundreds of random names. I want to return the value of the fixed name to another function that will display this value on a webpage for each random name. There will only ever be 1 element for value. I hope I'm explaining this better each time and not just making it twice as confusing :-)

In reply to Re^4: How to get specific hash elements? by talking_walnut
in thread How to get specific hash elements? by talking_walnut

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