G'day mijares93,

Welcome to the Monastery.

[Sorry, I'm a little late to the party on this one: I'm catching up after some travelling.]

The data returned from decode_json is typically a complex data structure and you can access its internal parts quite easily. Consider this short script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use JSON;

my $json_file = 'pm_1219718_data.json';
my $json_text = do { open my $fh, '<', $json_file; local $/; <$fh> };
my $perl_data = decode_json $json_text;

for (@{$perl_data->{observations}[0]{status}}) {
    print "$_->{path}\n"
}
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Output:

_L7=
_L2=
_L1=
_L6=-1
_L6=-2
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The "$json_file" is what you posted plus

  ]
}
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to close the "observations" array (with the ']') and the JSON object as a whole (with the '}').

"... I am new to Perl ..."

Here's some suggested reading:

• perlintro -- Perl introduction for beginners
• perldsc -- Perl data structures intro
• JSON
• Perl Programming Documentation - I recommend you bookmark this one and refer to it often
• MetaCPAN - I recommend you bookmark this one and refer to it as needed