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in reply to Re^2: How to access a hash from another file
in thread How to access a hash from another file

well, Perl doesn't mind tedious but you might and you are likely to get nice little errors in the long table that will be difficult to find. Why risk it? It's like wanting to print out a multiplication table by hardcoding all the results instead of calculating them. Yes, you can do it and Perl doesn't mind but it would defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?