Greetings Brothers,

I'm not even sure how to phrase this question. I want to get the *location* of a value in a datastructure, as opposed to just seeing if it's there or not.

For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $hash = { base => { key => 'value', key2 => 'value2'}};

print Dumper $hash;

my @output = grep $hash, 'value2';

print "@output\n";
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will output:

rasto@sauron:~$ ./test.pl 
$VAR1 = {
          'base' => {
                      'key2' => 'value2',
                      'key' => 'value'
                    }
        };
value2
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But what I really want is like the location of $VAR1=>{'base'}{'key2'}. How can I get that (elegantly)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

rasto

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