hi, again I am hitting a wall at dereferencing stuff ..., I use this stuff too little to grasp it properly. I have this structure:

$VAR1 = [
          bless( {
                   'identifierType' => bless( {
                                                'summary' => 'Asset ta
+g of the system',
                                                'label' => 'Asset Tag'
+,
                                                'key' => 'AssetTag'
                                              }, 'ElementDescription' 
+),
                   'identifierValue' => ' unknown'
                 }, 'HostSystemIdentificationInfo' ),
          bless( {
                   'identifierType' => bless( {
                                                'summary' => 'OEM spec
+ific string',
                                                'label' => 'OEM specif
+ic string',
                                                'key' => 'OemSpecificS
+tring'
                                              }, 'ElementDescription' 
+),
                   'identifierValue' => 'Dell System'
                 }, 'HostSystemIdentificationInfo' ),
          bless( {
                   'identifierType' => bless( {
                                                'summary' => 'OEM spec
+ific string',
                                                'label' => 'OEM specif
+ic string',
                                                'key' => 'OemSpecificS
+tring'
                                              }, 'ElementDescription' 
+),
                   'identifierValue' => '5[0000]'
                 }, 'HostSystemIdentificationInfo' ),
          bless( {
                   'identifierType' => bless( {
                                                'summary' => 'Service 
+tag of the system',
                                                'label' => 'Service ta
+g',
                                                'key' => 'ServiceTag'
                                              }, 'ElementDescription' 
+),
                   'identifierValue' => 'XXXXXXXX'
                 }, 'HostSystemIdentificationInfo' )
        ];
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I need to get the 'identifierValue' => 'XXXXXX' with IdentifierType key 'ServiceTag'

$VAR1 in Data::Dumper is an anonymous array

my $add_info = $host_view->summary->hardware->otherIdentifyingInfo;
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I tried this (among other stuff:

foreach (@$add_info) {
  if (  $_->identifierType->key eq "ServiceTag" ) {
     print $_->_identifierValue , "\n" ;
  }
}
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But I get "Undefined subroutine &HostSystemIdentificationInfo::_identifierValue called at script line 24" so I am failing miserably. Any help greatly appreciated.

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