Perl has amazing capabilities to generate very complex multi-dimensional data structures. In Perl every dimension until the last one is a reference. Seldom will more than 3 dimensions be needed with the power of the built in data type of hash table especially when combined with Regex. In my example, instead of making a sub-struct with the "data", I just filtered the hash keys to get the "data" keys (data,data1,data3) instead of other keys. This "flattens" the code and reduces one level in the data structure (and very efficiently).

I looks like to me that you just need a hash table with some heterogeneous values, like pointer to array, scalar, etc. This single structure is then represented in an amalgamation as an array them (pointers, "references" to them).

In reply to Re^3: multiple layers of referencing and dereferencing by Marshall
in thread multiple layers of referencing and dereferencing by Bruce32903

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