Perl experts.
I have a hash called tab2hash that has
tablenames as key and hashnames as value. I want to
initialize the hashes with the values from DB tables. And I
have the code below, however when i print the hashes
they are empty. This line is where the hash is being populated

$$VALUE_1{$k1} = $v1;

Please help with your suggestions.
my %tab2hash = qw(divisions divH regions regH);
sub initHashesArraysFromDB
{
    my ($k1, $v1);
    while ((my $KEY_1, my $VALUE_1) = each %tab2hash)
    {
        my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from $KEY_1");
        $sth->execute || die "Cannot execute query: " .DBI->errstr;
        while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow())
        {
            my $f1 = 0;
            foreach my $col (@row)
            {
                if($f1 == 0)
                {
                    $f1 = 1;
                    $k1 = $col;
                    $v1 = $col;
                }
                else
                {
                    $v1 .= "|" . $col;
                }
            }
            $$VALUE_1{$k1} = $v1;
        }
    }
}

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