uhb
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Jul 28, 2011, 9:00 AM
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Accessing hash value from variable
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I have what I believe may be rather a unique instance. I have need to access a multidimensional hash value from a string. I have a proprietary xml configuration file that is parsed using XML::Simple, creating a multidimensional hash. The problem is that the the product nomenclaure doesn't align with the xml/hash structure, so our own nomenclature must be converted into a string to lookup the value in the hash. Here's an example:
Example hash snippet generated by XML::Simple (dumped by Data::Dumper):
$VAR1 = {
'nw-version' => '1.0.0.2',
'doc-version' => '1',
'folder' => {
'sys' => {
'instance' => 'folder',
'prettyName' => 'sys',
'folder' => {
'name' => 'config',
'config' => {
'compression' => {
'value' => '0',
'prettyName' => 'Compression'
},
'port' => {
'value' => '12345',
'prettyName' => 'Port'
},
Let's say I want to access the value $appliancecfg->{folder}{sys}{folder}{config}{port}{value}. The internal nomenclature our product uses (and thus this script) would access this at "/sys/config/port". I have written a sub that converts "/sys/config/port' to {folder}{sys}{folder}{config}{port}{value} (into a string called $absolutevalue), but the problem is I thus far have not been able to find a way access the data stored at $appliancecfg->{folder}{sys}{folder}{config}{port}{value} using $absolutevalue or its cousin $absolutestring (see example below).
I realize perl orthodoxy says you shouldn't do this, but in this case I explicitly need to do it in order to make this conversion work.
Here are some things I've tried:
This works (for testing):
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg->{folder}{sys}{folder}{config}{port}{value}."\n"; #this line works
This doesn't work (total crapshoot, I know):
$absolutestring = '$appliancecfg->{folder}{"sys"}{folder}{"config"}{port}{value}'
$absolutevalue = '{folder}{"sys"}{folder}{"config"}{port}{value}'
print "Value = ".%$absolutestring."\n";
print "Value = ".$$absolutestring."\n";
print "Value = ".$absolutestring."\n";
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg->$absolutevalue."\n";
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg->$$absolutevalue."\n";
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg->{$absolutevalue}."\n";
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg->{$$absolutevalue}."\n";
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg{$absolutevalue}."\n";
print "Value = ".$appliancecfg{$$absolutevalue}."\n";
Can anyone help? Thanks!
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