multidimentional hash that has both two and three keys

From: Trina Espinoza (trinasofia_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

To: beginners@perl.org
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:34:46 -0800

Can you have a multidimentional hash that has both two and three keys?

For example:

Array with two keys and a value:
$HASH-> {$VAR}{letter} ="a";

Same Array with three keys and a value:
$HASH->{$VAR}{$number){float} = "1.1";
$HASH->{$VAR} {$number}{integer}="2";

Is this possible? I'm not sure if it didn't wok b/c of an error in syntax or
if it's because it's not possible.

To print the two keys and value I know I do:

print $HASH->{$VAR}{letter};

BUT, if I have three keys and a value, how do I print it? If $number is a
different number every time (1 ..10), how do I get it to print so that it
iterates through each number and gives me the float and the integer for
each.

Hope this makes sense! Any examples would help get me started

Thanx!

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