Hi All,

I am trying to create dynamic references in a recursion function. Below I place code which I try, and it return '{}' only. How to get the initial level reference in else part?

use Data::Dumper;

sub insert {
  my ($ref, $head, @tail) = @_;
   return unless ( @tail );
  if ( @tail and $head ne 'break') { insert( \%{$ref->{$head}}, @tail 
+) }
  else {
      # Here $ref gives '{}' value only.
      # How to get values of previous head values (ie. f1,f2,f3)
      print "\n==>", Dumper $ref;

      # More commands . . .
      #insert( \%{$ref->{f1}}, @tail )
  }
}


my %hash;
while (<DATA>) {
chomp and insert \%hash, split( '/', $_ ) ;
}
print "\nDump\n", Dumper %hash;

__DATA__
f1/f2/f3/f4/break/f1/f2/f5/break/f1/f2/f6

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In reply to Dynamically create the hash reference by k_manimuthu

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