Hi Monks

Is there an idiomatic way to add key/value pairs to a hash of anonymous hashes? For example, if I already have: 

my %hoh;
$hoh{element1} = {start => 1,
                  middle => 5};

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but then I want to add an  end => 10 to the same anonymous hash without replacing what's already there. I guess the problem is that the hash, being anonymous, doesn't have a name through which I can access it (other than with  keys  %hoh -- or does it?). So I can extract the anonymous hash to the top level, add to it, then replace what used to be there like so:

my %temphash = %{$hoh{element1}};
$temphash{end} = 10;
$hoh{element1} = \%temphash;

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but I was wondering if there is a better, more standard, idiomatic way to do this?

Thanks in advance...

Dlamini

In reply to Adding to hash of hashes by Dlamini

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