Re: Beginners question: assigning a variable as the name of a hash

You don't want to name your variables with strings contained in other variables. It sounds like you want a hash of hashes.

my %datastore;

$datastore{ $name }{ $key } = $keyvalue;
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Update: Fixed typo as per japhy's reply.

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Re^2: Beginners question: assigning a variable as the name of a hash by japhy (Canon) on Apr 22, 2005 at 21:44 UTC
You meant `my %datastore;`. _____________________________________________________ Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply] [d/l]