Not sure if I am out of my mind by trying or if I just cant grasp what I am trying to do, but here goes.

What I am trying to do involves a hash of hashes and subroutines. I am running the program with -w and use strict (learned that one a long time ago :) It's better explained after a snippet: 
my %HoH = (
 yadda1 => {
    key1 => "value1",
    key2 => &GetValue, # returns date string
    key3 => &Compare($var1,$HoH{yadda1}{key2}),
 },
 yadda2 => {
    key1 => "value1",
    key2 => &GetValue, # returns date string
    key3 => &Compare($var1,$HoH{yadda2}{key2}),
 },
);

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The problem exists when I try to get the value from key2 into the subroutine being called *IN* key3. It tells me "Global symbol "%HoH" requires explicit package name ... ". The hash has been declared, but I am basically calling it from within itself - is this not possible? If it is, what am I doing wrong?

- oakley
Embracing insanity - one twitch at a time >:)

In reply to Re-using a hash value in same hash? by oakley

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