[MacPerl] Dereferencing question

["Andrew O. Mellinger" <andrew@criticalpath.com>]

Greetings,

I know this is the MacPerl list, but I would like to post a pure perl question.

I have some nested hash/array structures and I am having trouble 
dereferencing them all at once.  Up until now, I've been doing it in 
stages, but I'd like to understand how to do it in one fell swoop.

So I have:

my $hRef = {};
my $aRef = [];

$$hRef{'alpha'} = 1;
$$hRef{'beta'} = 2;
$$hRef{'gamma'} = 3;

push @$aRef, "One";
push @$aRef, "Two";
push @$aRef, "Three";

$$hRef{'array'} = $aRef;


Now, I want to push another value onto the embedded array.  I've 
tried all of the following, but none seem to work

push $$hRef{'array'}, "Four";
push @$hRef{'array'}, "Four";
push @($hRef{'array'}), "Four";
push @($$hRef{'array'}), "Four";

    Does anyone have any ideas besides putting the array reference 
into a temporary?

-Andrew
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