in reply to How to access contents of a reference to a hash.

This requires the De reference operator use what you find at the end of reference, in Perl you use '->'
#!/usr/bin/perl my %hash = {'hello' => 'world', 'says' => 'just another perl hacker'}; my $hashref = \%hash; print "$hashref->{'says'} in the $hash{'world'}\n" ;
Will return:
just another perl hacker in the world