I'm afraid I didn't follow your explanation of what you're trying to do. Perhaps an example would help?

But some things that I think you might have been asking:

• A key or a value in a hash doesn't point back to its containing hash.

• If  $a->{C} == 'value'; but you want $a->{C} instead to contain a hash ref, you can do this:

         my %C = ( d => 1, e => 2);
         $a{C} = \%C;
  
             OR just:
  
         $a{C} = { d => 1, e => 2};
  [download]

If that wasn't what you were asking, I apologise - please explain further.

Clint

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