Re^4: How to get specific hash elements?

But is it possible to have a scalar for each "fixed_name" assigned the value of "value"? I suppose a better representation of the hash would be:

$VAR1 = 'random_name                         ';
$VAR2 = {
          'Fixed_name1     ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          },
          'Fixed_name2   ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          }
        };
$VAR3 = 'random_Name                                    ';
$VAR4 = {
          'Fixed_name1       ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          },
          'Fixed_name2   ' => {
                            'value    ' => undef
                          }
        };
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The fixed names are always going to be the same but there will be hundreds of random names. I want to return the value of the fixed name to another function that will display this value on a webpage for each random name. There will only ever be 1 element for value. I hope I'm explaining this better each time and not just making it twice as confusing :-)

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Re^5: How to get specific hash elements? by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 14, 2007 at 18:05 UTC
It sounds like you just want your structure to be like `$VAR2 = { 'Fixed_name1 ' => 'value ', 'Fixed_name2 ' => 'value ' };` [download] Then your original code would do what you expect. So assign just the value, rather than a hashref that uses the value as a key. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]