Apologies if this is going over old ground, but I can't find the answer to this in the archives.

I'm trying to dynamically build a hash of hashes, but I can't seem to get the context right. Here's the test code I'm working on: 
my %attrs = ( name => 'Band', link => 'band.html');

print "ATTRS KEYS = ", keys %attrs, "\n";
print "ATTRS VALUES = ", values %attrs, "\n";

my %container = ();
$container{ATTRIBUTES} = %attrs;

print "CONTAINER KEYS = ", keys %container, "\n";
print "CONTAINER VALUES = ", values %container, "\n";

my %new_attrs = $container{ATTRIBUTES};

print "NEW_ATTRS KEYS = ", keys %new_attrs, "\n";
print "NEW_ATTRS VALUES = ", values %new_attrs, "\n";

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What I want is for the %new_attrs hash to be loaded with the hash that I put into %container, but it only wants to give me a garbage reference. If I try the line like this:
my %new_attrs = %{$container{ATTRIBUTES}};

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... I get nothing out at the end (other than a Can't use string ("1/8") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" error if strict is in use).

Any help would be much appreciated.

willdooUK
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In reply to Dynamically building a hash of hashes by willdooUK

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