Re: Mystery (to me) Data Structure

[moritz]

but I am ashamed to admit I am not even sure what it is called

In this case it's a hash of hashes, or just "nested hashes".

But when data structures grow more complicated it doesn't make sense to invent ever more complicated names for them. Usually a Data::Dumper output of an example data structure explains its structure.

[Dru]

In this case it's a hash of hashes, or just "nested hashes".

Thanks, a HoH is what I thought it was, but it didn't quite resemble the the HoH definition in perldsc so it threw me for a loop, but now I realize they are initializing the hash while I am adding elements to it.