use strict; use warnings; my %bucket = ( key1 => {'1' => 3}, key2 => {'1' => 3, '2' => 2}, key3 => {'1' => 11, '2' => 36} ); my %spair = (); my $cnt =0; foreach my $kmer ( keys %bucket ) { foreach my $si (keys %{$bucket{$kmer}}) { foreach my $sn (keys %{$bucket{$kmer}}) { # next if ($spair{$sn."-".$si} != 0); next if ($sn < $si); if ( $si == $sn ) { $cnt = $bucket{$kmer}{$si}; } else { $cnt = $bucket{$kmer}{$si}*$bucket{$kmer}{$sn}; } $spair{$si."-".$sn} +=$cnt; } } # ----- end foreach ----- } # ----- end foreach ----- use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%spair;