Hi AnishaM,

We are really trying to help you help yourself. Marshall provided a good suggestion for making sure your data is what you think it is. Take a look at the following code for examples of inspecting your complex data structure. It really does help to clean up your code, indent properly, and be consistent. I have changed your original data slightly by making all the numbers be numbers instead of a mix of strings and numbers, and all the strings be not barewords. Note the usage of use strict; and use warnings; at the top.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my %HOAOH1 = (
    'details' => [
        {
            'name' => 'bbbb',
            'time' => 1234,
            'place' => 'AB'
        },
        {
            'name' => 'aaaa',
            'time' => 5678,
            'place' => 'CD'
        },
        {
            'name' => 'aaaa',
            'time' => 91011,
            'place' => 'EF'
        },
        {
            'name' => 'aaaa',
            'time' => 121314,
            'place' => 'GH'
        },
        {
            'name' => 'cccc',
            'time' => 151617,
            'place' => 'IJ'
        },
    ]
);

print Dumper \%HOAOH1; # See how useful Data::Dumper is for debugging 
+hashes and more complex data structures?

print $HOAOH1{'details'}; # Do you see why this just prints an array r
+eference?
print "\n";
print @{$HOAOH1{'details'}}; # Do you see why this just prints a bunch
+ of hash references?
print "\n";

foreach my $hash_reference (@{$HOAOH1{'details'}}) # Do you see how th
+is loop is accesing the lowest level hash keys and values?
{
    # Do you see the two different ways of de-referencing used here?
    print "$_=$$hash_reference{$_} " foreach (sort keys %{$hash_refere
+nce});
    print "\n";
}
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You could also look at the following for help learning as well:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html#Declaration-of-a-HASH-OF-COMPLEX-RECORDS

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl4/prog/ch09_03.htm