Now I understand which concept to use on the right side but I can't get my values assigned to the left side.

perlreftut says "Whatever you want to do with a reference, Use Rule 1 tells you how to do it. You just write the Perl code that you would have written for doing the same thing to a regular array or hash, and then replace the array or hash name with {$reference} ."

My traditional hash gets the values assigned to keys with this: 

my @values = ("value1", "value2", "value3");
@employees{qw(key1 key2 key3)} = @values;

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So I thought some form of this would work but I can't get it right. 
@{$hashref->{qw/key1 key2 key3/}} = @values;
%{$hashref}->{qw/key1 key2 key3/} = @values;

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I've tried many more combinations, including moving the brackets all over the place. Is this even close? I need a bigger hint I guess.

In reply to Re: Assigning values to undef hash reference keys two or more at a time by gctaylor1
in thread Assigning values to undef hash reference keys two or more at a time by gctaylor1

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