in reply to printing refence of hash inside a hash

print " $_ : ".$data->{$_}->{$_}."\n";

So perl should figure out for you which $_ to use - the one from the inner loop first, then the outer, then the inner?

for (qw(fine)) { for (qw(mess)) { print "$_ $_\n"; } } __END__ mess mess

No "fine mess".

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}