Just one other thing would you know what I would need to do to this sub routine so that I could get different output formats? For example I still need to pass in @keylist to the subroutine to make sure all the keys are there but I want to also parse in an output format string aswell. So for example if I wanted to print all the lines like this: 

%export_name:%filer_device:%filer_volume

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or print them with every value like this: 

%export_name:%filer_device:%filer_volume:%mount_acl:%mount_group:%moun
+t_user:%mount_opts

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So I want to be able to pass in $output_format to this function. $output_format equates to one of the strings above. So I could the run funtion like this: 

recurse_hash(\%$decoded_json_obj, {}, @keylist, $output_format);

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In reply to Re^5: Traversing a complex data structure searching for certain keys and printing their values by newperluser2013
in thread Traversing a complex data structure searching for certain keys and printing their values by newperluser2013

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