calling a varying hash?

[da good king]

i was wondering if it is possilbe to call a certain hash based on a variable. i.e. like calling different arrays using a hash, but using the next step further than a hash??? (superhash? idk)

[Zeriab]

I am not really sure what exactly you want.
I suggest you try to explain what you want to accomplish.

[da good king]

wat im saying is, and much like my earlier question about arrays, i have two hashes:

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Arshes = {
'v1' => [2,3],
'v2' => [3,4]
}
Basil = {
'v1' => [6,29],
'v2' => [8,31]
}
now i want the game to call "the actors name"['v1'][1], so how do I do that?

[modern algebra]

I suppose you could make a hash like this: {'Arshes' => {'v1' => [2,3], 'v2' => [3,4]}, 'Basil' => {'v1' => [6,29], 'v2' => [8, 31]}} though I don't know if that would work (I don't see why not though)

Or you could make a method with case branches, as in

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def get_actor (name)
  case name
  when 'Arshes'
    return {'v1' => [2,3], 'v2' => [3,4]}
  when 'Basil'
    return {'v1' => [6,29], 'v2' => [8, 31]}
  end
end


It seems like this is a fairly complicated structure. What are you planning? 

[da good king]

Hahaha, another super late reply, but who cares zzzz. Might as well leave all ?'s answered and resolved. I did in fact find a silly way to circumvent this problem using some instance variables and stored hashes.

It seems like this is a fairly complicated structure. What are you planning? 

Actually, the purpose of this is to make things less complicated . Simply, I'm just making easily accessible data banks w/ quick references to make data input easy on me. I'm much more accustomed to typing out a nice organized spreadsheet for my data than anything else.