Thank you all again in advance for your help

I am currently using the Spreadsheet::Read module to pull in data from an excel sheet. I would like to put my data points into a hash table as follows: 
use Spreadsheet::Read;
my %pointData{D.xls} = ReadData(fileD.xls)

my %coordinates =
(
x1 => $pointData(D.xls)->[1]->{A1},
y1 => $pointData(D.xls)->[1]->{A2},
z1 => $pointData(D.xls)->[1]->{A3},
);

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This is a simplification of my code, but it should be an accurate representation. When I try to run the script and print x1 using print "$coordinates{x1}";, it tells me that $coordinates{x1} is uninitialized. I was wondering if anyone sees something wrong with my code that could be causing this. I am assuming that I am missing an obvious thing, but I have read through a lot of documentation and still cannot figure it out

Many Thanks!

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