Re: Dereferencing within Hash Assignment

According to the documentation for Spreadsheet::Read, the ReadData function returns a reference to an array. Typically, you would assign it to a scalar, as demonstrated in the SYNOPSIS:

use Spreadsheet::Read;
my $ref = ReadData('file.xls');
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See also: perlreftut

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Re^2: Dereferencing within Hash Assignment by Comment (Novice) on Sep 24, 2010 at 20:05 UTC
Apologies, I should have mentioned this earlier. I am actually doing this for multiple files. That is why I am putting the array reference into a hash. I made a related post on this here How Best to Handle Data. In the end, I have a hash with every key being a different file name and the value being the array reference from ReadData.	[reply]