I'm passing around a bunch of hash references to various subroutines and things are getting kind of ugly. I don't know if I need to use symbolic references of eval something or if there's any better way to do this. Please consider the following code: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

$db{x} = 'file';
$db{y} = 'name_of_hash';
$db{z} = 'key';

$hashref = \%db;

print $hashref->{y};

# Is there a better way to create a new hash with the same
# name as the value found in $hashref->{y} (which in this
# case is 'name_of_hash').  I'm trying to automatically
# create %name_of_hash. 

# This assigment seems to work but I'd hate to debug it six
# months from now.
${$hashref->{y}}{$hashref->{z}} = 'value';

# But I can't print it
print "${$hashref->{y}}{$hashref->{z}}\n";

# I have to do this.
print "$name_of_hash{$hashref->{z}}\n";

# All this for this!
print $name_of_hash{key}

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In reply to Creating a hash with the same name as the value of $hashref-{y} by kingman

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