Perl How to access a hash that is the element of an array that is the value of another hash?

I am trying to create a Hash that has as its value an array.

The first element of the value(which is an array) is a scalar. The second elem开发者_StackOverflow中文版ent of the value(which is an array) is another hash.

I have put values in the key and value of this hash as follows :

${${$senseInformationHash{$sense}[1]}{$word}}++;

Here,

My main hash -> senseInformationHash

My Value -> Is an Array

So, ${$senseInformationHash{$sense}[1]} gives me reference to my hash

and I put in key and value as follows :

${${$senseInformationHash{$sense}[1]}{$word}}++;

I am not sure if this is a correct way to do it. Since I am stuck and not sure how I can print this complex thing out. I want to print it out in order to check if I am doing it correctly.

Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Just write

$sense_information_hash{$sense}[1]{$word}++;

and be done with it.

Perl gets jealous of CamelCase, you know, so you should use proper underscores. Otherwise it can spit and buck and generally misbehave.

A hash value is never an array, it is an array reference.

To see if you are doing it right, you can dump out the whole structure:

my %senseInformationHash;
my $sense = 'abc';
my $word = '123';
${${$senseInformationHash{$sense}[1]}{$word}}++;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper( \%senseInformationHash );

which gets you:

$VAR1 = {
      'abc' => [
                 undef,
                 {
                   '123' => \1
                 }
               ]
    };

Note the \1: presumably you want the value to be 1, not a reference to the scalar 1. You are getting the latter because your ${ ... }++; says treat what's in the curly braces as a scalar reference and increment the scalar referred to.

${$senseInformationHash{$sense}[1]}{$word}++; does what you want, as does $senseInformationHash{$sense}[1]{$word}++. You may find http://perlmonks.org/?node=References+quick+reference helpful in seeing why.

Thanks Axeman and TChrist.

The code I have to access it is as follows :

    foreach my $outerKey (keys(%sense_information_hash))
{
  print "\nKey => $outerKey\n";
  print "  Count(sense) => $sense_information_hash{$outerKey}[0]\n";

        foreach(keys (%{$sense_information_hash{$outerKey}[1]}) )
    {
        print " Word wt sense => $_\n";
        print " Count  => $sense_information_hash{$outerKey}[1]{$_}\n"; 
    }
}

This is working now. Thanks much!