Richard Lee wrote:
below is hash of hash?
No, it's not. It's a failed attempt to try to imitate what's outputted when you use Data::Dumper to print a hash of hashes.
how do I dereference them (all of them)?
C:\home>type test.pl my %HoH = ( 'number' => { 'three' => '21', 'five' => '23', 'one' => 'number', 'two' => '20', 'four' => '22' }, 'alpha' => { 'e' => '103', 'c' => '101', 'a' => 'alpha', 'b' => '100', 'd' => '102' } ); # printing examples print "number - four is: $HoH{number}{four}\n"; print "alpha - e is: $HoH{alpha}{e}\n"; C:\home>perl test.pl number - four is: 22 alpha - e is: 103 C:\home> But you need to make an effort with the perl documentation. perldoc perldsc perldoc perlreftut perldoc perlref Good luck! -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/