in reply to JSON ARRAY Problem

I came up with this to extract the ID tag its a horrible hack. Anyone know how I can extract the correct data everytime.?

Not sure, the format seems too dumb to correctly get the thing you want each time, both "Qualifiers" and "World Cup 2014" are of type "COMPETITION"

Your jsontidy.pl data 

{
   "in-running-flag" : false,
   "markets" : [],
   "status" : "paid",
   "name" : "Georgia vs Finland",
   "allow-live-betting" : false,
   "meta-tags" : [
      {
         "name" : "Soccer",
         "type" : "SPORT",
         "id" : 4
      },
      {
         "name" : "Qualifiers",
         "type" : "COMPETITION",
         "id" : 650
      },
      {
         "name" : "World Cup 2014",
         "type" : "COMPETITION",
         "id" : 5
      },
      {
         "name" : "Sport",
         "type" : "Root",
         "id" : 1
      },
      {
         "name" : "September 10th 2013",
         "type" : "DATE",
         "id" : 651
      }
   ],
   "category-id" : [
      146598
   ],
   "sport-id" : 15,
   "id" : 241995,
   "start" : "2013-09-10T17:00:00.000Z"
}

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So what I would do is 

my @meata = ...;
my %cat;
for my $meat ( @meata ){
    my( $type, $id, $name ) = @{$meat}{qw/ type id name/};
    $cat{ $type }{ $id } = $name;
}

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Then %category of $type of $id is $nameed

Then %category of $type of $id is valued $name

Then %category of $type of $id has value $name

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