Great suggestion!

Implementing your suggestion revealed trailing whitespace in the keys. Removing the whitespace solved the problem.

Thanks a lot for your help and your great insight!

Daniel Dekany <ddekany <at> freemail.hu> wrote:

I doesn't see any problem with this... so it's probably that GHI really doesn't have an entry with "A1" key, or that "A1" is mapped to a Java null value (that way the value is missing despite that the key exists).

What do you see if you list the hash entries like:

<#list ABC.DEF.GHI?keys as k>

${k} => ${ABC.DEF.GHI[k]?default('Java null')}

</#list>

Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 3:41:22 AM, Bruce Perryman wrote:

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OK, I'm doing something wrong, again. This is the structure of my maps: ABC   ||   =>DEF         ||         =>GHI               ||               =>A1=a               =>A2=b               =>A3=c         =>GHI2               ||               =>B1=d               =>B2=e               =>B3=f Hopefully this description makes sense to you. ABC contains a map DEF and DEF contains a few maps, two of which are GHI, and GHI2. I am trying to evaluate A1 at the GHI level. This I do as follows: ${ABC.DEF.GHI.A1} This results in the error that A1 is undefined. If I evaluate ${ABC.DEF.GHI} the error is that a string, etc. is expected but the expression evaluates to a simple hash. Can you please point me in the right direction? Ultimately, I want to be able to use a variable to represent the GHI level with something like: ${ABC.DEF[x].A1} But I thought I'd work with the 'simple' case first. Thanks in advance for your help.

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Best regards,

 Daniel Dekany