Something like this would prevent one of the arrays from being processed in the cross product.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Set::CrossProduct; my %hash=('ID' => { 'key1' => ['key1_val1', 'key1_val2'], 'key2' => ['key2_val1', 'key2_val2'], 'key3' => ['one', 'two'] } ); for my $id (keys %hash) { my $key3 = delete $hash{$id}{key3}; my @data = values %{ $hash{$id} }; my $cp = Set::CrossProduct->new( \@data ); my $i = 1; while( my $array_ref = $cp->get ) { print join( " ", $id, $i++, @$array_ref ), "\n"; } print "@$key3\n"; }
Prints
ID 1 key2_val1 key1_val1 ID 2 key2_val1 key1_val2 ID 3 key2_val2 key1_val1 ID 4 key2_val2 key1_val2 one two

In reply to Re^3: Massive expansion of a hash of arrays? by Cristoforo
in thread Massive expansion of a hash of arrays? by Amblikai

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