using string as hashref

[Andrew Gaffney]

I'm writing a program that uses a hashref tree to store data. I'm just playing around with 
this, so it's nothing critical. I remember reading that you could use a string to specify 
a variable name or something similar. I have the following string value:

my $node = "$data->{computer}->{test}->{item1}->{text}";

which corresponds to the the hash tree:

my $data = {computer => {test => {item1 => {text => "computer.test.item1"}}}};

How can I get it to print "computer.test.item1" (from hash tree above) instead of just the 
bare string contents of $node?

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Andrew Gaffney
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