foreach my $iteration (@iterations) { print "$iteration\n"; # section header my $section = $tree{$iteration}; # array ref for my $i (0 .. $#$section) { my @data; foreach my $name (@names) { my $data = $section->[$i]{$name}; next unless defined $data; push @data, "$name:$data"; } if(@data) { my $line = join " ", @data; print "$line\n"; } } }