in reply to Re^2: Problems with HOHOH modification
in thread Problems with HOHOH modification

You want $HOHOH{ Betakey2 }{ Alphakey2 } to contain an empty hash? Then assign it an empty hash: 

$HOHOH{ Betakey2 }{ Alphakey2 } = {};

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But again, I suspect that you are not describing your requirements very well? For example, what happened to the top level hash in youe examples? What you have posted looks like two entirely different data structures.

I'm not trying to offend you, but whilst your requirement may be entirely obvious to you, it is far from clear to us reading your post.

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