AW: Hash of Hashes

[Thomas Bätzler]

Soham Das <soham...@yahoo.co.in> asked:
> How can I create a Hash of Hashes from two lists. Is it possible?
> 
> I want the effective functionality to be served like this
> 
> $ChildHash["Joe"]["21A"]="Sally"
> 
> i.e Joe at 21A has a child called Sally. List1 here will be the name of
> Parents, List2 here will contain the house number.

Please keep in mind: square brackets are for arrays/lists. Curly brackets are 
for hashes.

In any case, wouldn't it be smarter to organize your data differently?

I.e.:

%parent = ( 'Joe' => { 'address' => '21A', children => ['Dick','Sally'] } );

To add another child to an existing parent you'd then say

        push @{$parent{'Joe'}{'children'}}, 'Jane';

To add a new parent:

        @{$parent{'Sven'}}{'address','children'} = ( '9b', ['Bjorn'] );

HTH,
Thomas