Dear people, thank you so MUCH for the help. I just dont understand it still .. I think my mind may be unable to understand it. I have two possible explanations: OK, so when a hash item like $flintstones{stars} is "dereferenced as an array" it mean that the hash item is now treated in a "list context" producing a list with two items? Or 2) that the values stored at the reference (address) is treated as a list .. I think it would make better sense if the structure was defined like this to get an item from a hash with multiple values $flintstones{stars}[0]

In reply to Re^2: Help wanted .. cant get my head around array of hash by theantler
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