Re^5: variable as hash name

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re^4: variable as hash name
in thread variable as hash name

Because these 'groups' names ( that I want to use as hash names ) will also come from a external file.

Exactly, they can all go into a hash, you can have

$hashref->{group1}{dogs}{fido}{breed}='doberman';
$hashref->{group1}{dogs}{fido}{age}=12;
$hashref->{group11}{humans}{larry}{age}= undef;
...

or anything -- should really read varvarname