Where does the first hash come from? Maybe there's a way to get the data directly in the format you want, if the intermediate format (your first one) is useless.

Otherwise something like this might help: 

# maybe you can directly iterate on the input, rather than iterate ove
+r %first_hash

# Get the contained hashes (which are the values of the top hash), bec
+ause the keys are not used
for my $subhash (values %first_hash) 
{
  my $key = $subhash->{LABEL};
  # You have the key above, and the associated value is actually $subh
+ash
  ...
}

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Edit: this is really straightforward, so maybe the information your are missing is how to work with references (a hash within a hash is actually stored through a reference, ie an hashref).

Edit 2: oh ++choroba is right, you can't just have multiple values for the same key. You need an intermediate array. Thanks to the magic of autovivification you can just write: push @{ $hash{$key} }, $value to add a new $value to the array stored at $key (and created it if needed).

In reply to Re: hash array question by Eily
in thread hash array question by Tony23

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