--- Wiggins d Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You only have to dereference if you are trying to do something to the > > structure in aggregate, aka you have to supply a hash, such as is the > > case for 'keys', 'values', and 'each'. If you want to access a single > > value from the nested hash, you can access it directly using the little > > arrow syntax, > > > > $printers->{jobs}->{4};
Yes, now i got it. > > Dammit, $printers is not a hash reference, so the above will not work > (boy everyone can see how I normally do it ;-)), for your example that > should read, > > $printers{jobs}->{4}; Using my example, the followed works perfectly: $printers{jobs}->{'d00011-001'}; > Which going back to your post, I see you already had. Sorry for the noise, Thank you very much Wiggins. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>