Thanks for your quick replies. I have managed to get a little farther, and might be sufficiently well informed to complete this now. I have new code like this: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use JSON;
#use vsutils;
use Data::Dumper;
use Ref::Util qw(is_arrayref is_hashref);

my $companyNumber = 'NF001553';
    my $request =  "https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/com
+pany/".$companyNumber."/officers";
    my $curl = `curl -s --user sameAPIKeyAsBefore:""  $request` || die
+ "SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE\n";
    my $decodedJSON = decode_json($curl) || die "this is not JSON\n";
    if (is_hashref($decodedJSON)){
        for (sort keys %$decodedJSON) {
            if ($_ eq 'items'){
                print Dumper($decodedJSON->{$_});
                }
            }
        }

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Now this is returning the directors and their addresses, so I should be able to move forward handling each element.

In reply to Re^2: Parsing the data returned from the companies house API by irtuk
in thread Parsing the data returned from the companies house API by irtuk

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