use warnings; use strict; my %hash = ( '-P' => 'hostPassword', 'alternate_param_options' => [ 'all', 'objects', {'-H' => ['hosting-storage-system', 'vfiler'], '-S' => ['saf']}, undef ], 'single_switches' => ['-N'], 'mandatory' => ['end'], '-U' => 'hostLogin' ); delve (\%hash); sub delve { my ($ref, $key) = @_; if ('ARRAY' eq ref $ref) { for my $element (@$ref) { if ($key) { delve ($element, $key); } elsif (ref $element) { delve ($element) } } return; } if ('HASH' eq ref ($ref)) { for my $nestedKey (keys %$ref) { my $value = $ref->{$nestedKey}; if ($nestedKey =~ /^-/) { delve ($value, $nestedKey) } else { delve ($value, $key) } } return; } return if ref $ref; # Some other reference type - ignore it if ($key) { printf "%22s: %s\n", $ref, $key; } }