in reply to how to loop through the hash of hash arrays

Instead of comparing each dest of each module with each dest of any other module, just create a hash of dests and store which modules use it. Then, if the resulting hash has more than one key for a dest, they correspond to the connected modules. I stored the indices in the inner hashes for easier retrieval of the corresponding sources:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; my %h = ('module2(' => {source => ['.akjsdk', '.qahwgd'] , dest => ['ajhsx', 'uiahs'] }, 'module3(' => {source => ['.x', '.y'] , dest => ['z', 'uiahs'] }, 'module1(' => {source => ['.akjsdk1', '.sjkdhs11', '.qahwgd1' +], dest => ['ajhsx', 'ajhdj', 'uiahs']}); my %connection; for my $module (keys %h) { for my $dest_index (0 .. $#{ $h{$module}{dest} }) { my $dest = $h{$module}{dest}[$dest_index]; undef $connection{$dest}{$module}{$dest_index}; } } for my $dest (keys %connection) { if ((my @modules = keys %{ $connection{$dest} }) > 1) { say "Connected:"; for my $module (@modules) { say "\t$module $h{$module}{source}[$_]" for keys %{ $conne +ction{$dest}{$module} }; } } }
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