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Works for me:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $recref = { DATA => { FIELD_DELIMITER => '<-->', FILE_NAME => 'SCRAMBLETEST2.CSV', RECORD_NAME => 'DATA', RECORD_SELECTOR => '^1', SECTION_NAME => undef, }}; my $recname = 'DATA'; print $recref->{$recname}{FIELD_DELIMITER};
Output:
<-->
Use Data::Dumper to check that your structures really contain what you think.
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