Hello neilwatson,

If your data is really always in the form shown, then, as Laurent_R says, you can simplify your data structure to a plain hash and overwrite default values easily:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump;

my %h = map { $_ => 0 } qw(kept notkept repaired);
my $a =
[
    [ 'kept',     '1', ],
    [ 'repaired', '3', ],
];

dd   \%h;
%h = (%h, map { $_->[0] => $_ ->[1] } @$a);
dd   \%h;

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Output:

 0:16 >perl 1022_SoPW.pl
{ kept => 0, notkept => 0, repaired => 0 }
{ kept => 1, notkept => 0, repaired => 3 }

 0:16 >

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But if (as I suspect) you really do need the more complex AoH, you can still make the overwriting code more efficient by breaking out of the inner loop when a match is found:

# Overwrite defaults with arrayref

OUTER:
for my $i (@{$a})
{
    for my $t (@t)
    {
        if ($i->[0] eq $t->{label})
        {
            $t->{value} = $i->[1];
            next OUTER;
        }
    }
}

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Convert arrayref to AoH by Athanasius
in thread Convert arrayref to AoH by neilwatson

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