I understand hashes fine. I now know I don't under hash references because after a day of playing with hash references I still can not get to all of my data. I am initializing my refernce in a loop like this. 
 $hashr->{$name}->{$id}->{$comment}

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I then attempt to get to the data in the reference like this 
for $k1 ( sort keys %$hashr ) {
    print "$k1\n";
    for $k2 (sort keys %{$hashr->{ $k1 }} ) {
        $k3 = %{$hashr->{ $k1 }->{ $k2 }};
        print "$k2\t\t$k3\n";
    }
}

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I am able to get the $k1 data, I am able to get the $k2 data. I am not able to get the $k3 information. I wonder if I am really adding the comment to the this hash reference.
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In reply to I don't understand hash references by monk2b

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