use strict; use warnings; my $month_total = 0; my $day_week_total = 0; my $VAR1 = { 'Adam' => { 'days' => 22, 'weeks' => 5, 'total' => 22 }, 'Keas' => { 'total' => 114, 'test' => 2, 'weeks' => 8, 'days' => 107, 'months' => 5 }, 'Tim' => { 'total' => 4, 'weeks' => 5, 'days' => 3, 'months' => 1 }, 'Sum' => { 'total' => 440, 'days' => 365, 'months' => 9 } }; for my $name ( sort keys %{$VAR1} ) { for my $calen ( sort keys %{ $VAR1->{$name} } ) { if ( $name ne 'Sum' ) { if ( ($calen eq 'days') || ($calen eq 'weeks') ){ $day_week_total += $VAR1->{$name}->{$calen} if ($VAR1->{$name}->{$calen}); } elsif ( ($calen eq 'months') ){ $month_total += $VAR1->{$name}->{$calen} if($VAR1->{$name}->{$calen}); } } } } print "\n day_total: $day_week_total —-- month_total: $month_total \n";