in reply to construct variable name on the fly

thank you....the dot operator did the trick. this doesn't work for getting keys from such a constructed variable though. Any help in this regard please. Example: 
$thisname{'frank'} = 1;
$thisname{'lee'} = 2;
$hashname = 'thisname';
print keys %.$hashname;

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Re^2: construct variable name on the fly
by pg (Canon) on Oct 19, 2004 at 02:00 UTC 
    $thisname{'frank'} = 1;
$thisname{'lee'} = 2;
$hashname = 'thisname';
print keys(%$hashname);

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