Hello everyone, I got a task to write a Perl script to test our API. So far so good code below 

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON;
use JSON::Parse 'parse_json';

print "Loading API.\n";

my $json = `curl -k --silent -u admin:password https://url...`;

print "API is loaded.\n";

my $decoded_json = parse_json ($json);

my $input = $ARGV[0];
chomp $input;
my ($item, $mac, $value);
foreach $item (@$decoded_json) {
    $mac = $item->{address};
    
    if ($input eq "active") {
        $value = $item->{active};
    if ($value eq 1){
        print ("Device with the MAC-Adress: $mac is active!\n");
    }elsif($value eq ""){
        print ("Device with the MAC-Adress: $mac is disabled!\n");
    }}else{
        print ("Device with the MAC-Adress: $mac, the value of $input 
+is: ", $item->{$input}, "\n");
    }   
};

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Is it possible to replace the loop and if statments, so the asked parameter like "active=true", with curl? So the true values get saved in $json. Basicly, execute the request with just curl code. For example if I start it: perl test.pl active=true, so it outputs only the active true values?

In reply to Getting values with help of curl by PerlMonkey22

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