My apologies for the bad title. It's already taken me 30 minutes to come up with that! ;)

I use this a lot: (Very cool IMHO) 

  @hash{a..z}=(1..26)

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What I'd really like to see though is something like this: 

  $hash{a..c}='some value'

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Where the results would be equivalent to: 

   $hash{a}{b}{c}='some value'

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Is there a cleaver way of doing this that would add the items. I had a subroutine (misplaced it) that would reverse the tree 'c'..'a' when passed 'a'..'c', loop on it, build a hash 'c'=>'some value', place that hash in 'b'=>{'c'='somevalue'} and finally 'a'=>{'b'=>{'c'='somevalue'}.

Obviously, if I ran the sub a second time with, (a,b,d)='another value', the 'b' branch (and 'a' for that matter) would be completely over-written. I'm not seeing the solution. Please help! 8)

All help will be greatly appreciated!
Shawn M Ferris
Oracle DBA

In reply to A hash slice but not.. by smferris

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