Re^2: extracting elements by key from an array of hashes

True that. However, the data is coming from an xmlrpc source via XML::RPC and that's how it's structured. I don't have control over the source API or at least I don't want to change it.

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Re^3: extracting elements by key from an array of hashes by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 25, 2015 at 10:35 UTC
You can easily create a temporary hash to do the searches: `my %hash = map %$_, @rpc;` [download] لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: extracting elements by key from an array of hashes by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 25, 2015 at 14:57 UTC
Keep in mind that you have no obligation to store data internally in inconvenient formats. If it is more convenient to manipulate it internally as a hash, do that conversion at the earliest possible point after reading it in, and convert back at the latest possible point if you ever have to output the structure again. Dave	[reply]
Re^3: extracting elements by key from an array of hashes by Anonymous Monk on Sep 25, 2015 at 10:45 UTC
... and if there is potentially more than one value per bucket, simply make each element an arrayref. Auto-vivification makes this trivially easy to do.	[reply]