You should decode the JSON so you could interact with the data as Perl structures:

use JSON;

my $json = <<HERE;
{"id":241995,"name":"Georgia vs Finland","start":"2013-09-10T17:00:00.
+000Z","status":"paid","sport-id":15,"category-id":[146598],"markets":
+[],"meta-tags":[{"id":4,"name":"Soccer","type":"SPORT"},{"id":650,"na
+me":"Qualifiers","type":"COMPETITION"},{"id":5,"name":"World Cup 2014
+","type":"COMPETITION"},{"id":1,"name":"Sport","type":"Root"},{"id":6
+51,"name":"September 10th 2013","type":"DATE"}],"in-running-flag":fal
+se,"allow-live-betting":false}
HERE

my $data = decode_json($json);

my @meta_tag_ids = map {
    $_->{id}
} @{ $data->{meta_tags} };

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EDIT: Actually, maybe I understand the problem now...you only want the IDs of the metatags that display the sport being played and the date the sport was played on, correct?

use JSON;

my $json = <<HERE;
{"id":241995,"name":"Georgia vs Finland","start":"2013-09-10T17:00:00.
+000Z","status":"paid","sport-id":15,"category-id":[146598],"markets":
+[],"meta-tags":[{"id":4,"name":"Soccer","type":"SPORT"},{"id":650,"na
+me":"Qualifiers","type":"COMPETITION"},{"id":5,"name":"World Cup 2014
+","type":"COMPETITION"},{"id":1,"name":"Sport","type":"Root"},{"id":6
+51,"name":"September 10th 2013","type":"DATE"}],"in-running-flag":fal
+se,"allow-live-betting":false}
HERE

my $data = decode_json($json);
my @interesting_meta_tag_ids = ();

foreach my $metatag (@{ $data->{meta_tags} }) {
    my $type = $metatag->{type};

    if ($type eq 'SPORT' or $type eq 'DATE') {
        push @interesting_meta_tag_ids, $metatag->{id};
    }
}

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In reply to Re: JSON ARRAY Problem by Riales
in thread JSON ARRAY Problem by Gruaig

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