This is because the array of traps is stored as a reference to an anonymous array in one of the keys (TRAP_LIST) of the anonymous hash in the TRAPS key of the %$hash. This means that when you try to print the keys and values of the %{$hash->{TRAPS}} hash, you get the stringified array reference. To solve this you could add a special case to the output loop which prints the contents of the array.

# this handles ARRAYs and HASHes
# you may want to use Data::Dumper for debugging however
# the final code for processing the data structure will
# also be less generic than this code.
if (ref $value eq 'ARRAY') {
  print "$key => (@$value)\n";
} elsif (ref $value eq 'HASH') {
  print "$key => (%$value)\n";
} else
  print "$key => $value\n";
}
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Thank you Integral
One last question,

What would the syntax be if I wanted to simply print out?:

Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1
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Thanks again, I'm slowly piecing this all together.

Exactly ... that's part of what needs finishing. My laziness got the best of my hubris. 8-)

If you're using $_, you can just say if (/blahblah/) { instead of if ($_ =~ /blahblah/) {. $_ is the default 'it' ... use it as such.

If it wasn't for the traps thing, you could write everything as:

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;
    next unless /^(\S+):\s+(.+)\s*$/;
    my ($key, $val) = (uc $1, $2);

    if ($key eq 'DATE')
    {
        push @data, $hash if defined $hash;
        $hash = {};
    }

    $hash->{$key} = $val;
}
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But, can we make it work?

use strict;

my $hash = undef;
my $trap = undef;
my @data = ();

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;
    next unless /^\s*(\S+):\s+(.+)\s*$/o ||
                /^\s*Trap (\S+):\s+(.+)\s*$/o ||
                /^\s*SNMP (\S+) Generated:\s*$/o;
    my ($key, $val) = (uc $1, $2);

    if ($key eq 'DATE')
    {
        if (defined $hash)
        {
            if (defined $trap)
            {
                push @{$hash->{TRAPS}{TRAP_LIST}}, $trap;
                $trap = undef;
            }

            push @data, $hash if defined $hash;
        }
        $hash = {};
    }
    elsif ($key eq 'TRAPS')
    {
        $hash->{TRAPS} = { TRAP_LIST => [] };
        $trap = {};
        next;
    }

    if ($key eq 'GENERIC' || $key eq 'SPECIFIC' || $key eq 'OID')
    {
        $hash->{TRAPS}{$key} = $val;
    }
    elsif (defined $trap)
    {
        $trap->{$key} = $val;

        if ($key eq 'DATA')
        {
            push @{$hash->{TRAPS}{TRAP_LIST}}, $trap;
            $trap = {};
        }
    }
    else
    {
        $hash->{$key} = $val;
    }
}

if (defined $hash)
{
    if (defined $trap)
    {
        push @{$hash->{TRAPS}{TRAP_LIST}}, $trap;
        $trap = undef;
    }

    push @data, $hash if defined $hash;
}

use Data::Dumper;
print Data::Dumper->Dump([\@data]);

__DATA__
Date:      Mon Feb 17 13:14:19 2003
SServer:   formula3
Device:    111.222.123.124
CString:   public
Port:      162

SNMP Traps Generated:

    Trap OID:    1.3.6.1.4
      Generic:   2
      Specific:  0
        Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1
        Type:    2
        Data:    10
        Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1
        Type:    2
        Data:    20
        Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7
        Type:    2
        Data:    20
        Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8
        Type:    2
        Data:    30

Date:      Mon Feb 17 13:14:22 2003
SServer:   formula3
Device:    111.164.121.125
CString:   public
Port:      162

SNMP Traps Generated:

    Trap OID:    1.3.6.1.4
      Generic:   3
      Specific:  0
        Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1
        Type:    2
        Data:    12
        Varbind: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1
        Type:    2
        Data:    20
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