Dereferencing a hash? I don't see it in perlref, but it is in perlreftut.
If you're talking about examples of dereferencing hash references, perlref does show a lot of them. To name a few (comments are mine)...,
....you can replace the identifier with a simple scalar variable.... 
...
$$arrayref[0] = "January";
$$hashref{"KEY"} = "VALUE"; # deref the hash, assign a key
&$coderef(1,2,3);
...

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....you can replace the identifier with a BLOCK returning a reference.... 
...
${$arrayref}[0] = "January";
${$hashref}{"KEY"} = "VALUE"; # same as above, differet syntax
&{$coderef}(1,2,3);
...

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.... As a form of syntactic sugar.... 
$arrayref->[0] = "January";
$hashref->{"KEY"} = "VALUE"; # still the same, witha arrow operator
$coderef->(1,2,3);

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So does perlreftut, I suppose. Talking about words, that doc doesn't even have a single word of "dereference" or "dereferencing", though it doesn't matter to me. But I didn't know if perlreftut talked about dereferencing a hash, or any other docs. :-)

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In reply to Re^4: Hash of hashes problem by naikonta
in thread Hash of hashes problem by lsteele

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