Using aitap's answer for finding the 'b's in Company_A, (I think the assignment to '()' isn't necessary), I reproduced your output with this code.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use 5.014; use Data::Dumper; my %hash = ( Company_A => { Identifier_1 => ['a', 'b'], Identifier_2 => ['b', 'g'], Identifier_3 => ['c'] }, Company_B => { Identifier_1 => ['a'], Identifier_2 => ['g'], Identifier_3 => ['x'] }); my $b_count = map { grep {$_ eq 'b'} @$_ } values %{ $hash{Company_A} +}; for my $company (sort keys %hash) { my (@ones, @multi); my $href = $hash{$company}; for my $id (sort keys %$href) { my $aref = $href->{$id}; if (1 == @$aref) { push @ones, $aref->[0]; } else { push @multi, $aref; } } if (@multi) { for my $m (@multi) { print "$company ", join(",", @$m, @ones), "\n"; } } else { print "$company ", join(",", @ones), "\n"; } }
C:\Old_Data\perlp>perl t6.pl Company_A a,b,c Company_A b,g,c Company_B a,g,x

In reply to Re: Searching and printing complex data structures by Cristoforo
in thread Searching and printing complex data structures by Anonymous Monk

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