I have a hash (i believe it to be a hash) with data that looks like the following: 
Dumping$VAR1 = {
          'data' => [
                      {
                        'ID' => 32,
                        'State' => 'Stopped'
                      },
                      {
                        'ID' => 33,
                        'State' => 'Stopped'
                      }

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I want to be able to loop through the data, and check the current JobID, when i find a match (say 33) i want to grab the State field and do a check against it. How would this be possible? I tried the following: 
foreach my $value (sort keys $states->{data}) {
        if ($value == 15) {
    $CurrentState = $states->{data->{'State}'};
        print "In here because found state of 15\n";
        print "CurrentState; [$CurrentState]\n";
    }    
    }

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Which prints the CurrentState - but its blank as im accessing it incorrectly. So i am able to get to the point where i know JobID = 15, but i can't get the current state field correctly. Cheers

In reply to accessing data in hash by ccfc1986

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