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in reply to Not a HASH reference using YAML

The Loadfile function will open and read the file for you. See the code below.... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use YAML qw(LoadFile);
my %Config;
%Config=LoadFile("YAMLFile.txt");
print $Config{Item1}{SubItem1};

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