print "Print city: $result->[0]{'city'}\n";
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     my %hash = %{$result->[0]};  # copy result to new hash
     ...
     print "Print city: $hash{'city'}\n";
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Why would this be cleaner? You've got a reference to an array, containing a hash, meaning it only exists 1 time in your memory.
Now you're dereferencing it into another hash, resulting in being twice in the memory. Do this with larger hashes over and over, and the memory usage becomes bigger and bigger.
Print city: $result->[0]{'city'}\n"; is a verry legitimate way to write the results, i'd like the iterative way even more, in $result->[1] may be another hash, so i'd use ikegami's approach:


foreach $record ( @{$result} ) {
   foreach $field (keys %$record) {
      printf("%s: %s\n",
         $field,
         $record->{$field},
      );
   }
   print("\n");
}
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This doesn't create a copy, just an alias:

local %hash;
*hash = $result->[0];
...
print "Print city: $hash{'city'}\n";
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I still can't quite figure out why Frontier::Client put this result in such a pointlessly nested data structure...

Could it possibly return more than one result? Or maybe it's just extending a generic module that returns the data in that fashion.

Tricky! Even the camel book harly touches on the * operator, relegating it to 'supported in C' in the index... I settled on the decidedly untricky:

  $geocode = $result->[0];
  print "Match: lat=$geocode->{'lat'} long=$geocode->{'long'}\n";
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I still can't quite figure out why Frontier::Client put this result in such a pointlessly nested data structure...

Because it's not pointless. The XML-RPC protocol allows for arrays of hashes. This means that the outer array is useful. It's just not useful in your situation.

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