TIMTOWTDI, There is more than one way to do it.

Given the nature of the data (and depending how it is supposed to be used later), I would probably use an array of hashes (AoH), something like this: 

my @numbers = ( undef, 
                { it => "uno", sp => "uno",  fr => "un"}, 
                { it => "due", sp => "dos",  fr => "deux"},  
                { it => "tre", sp => "tres", fr => "trois"},
                # ...
              );

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which yields a structure like this: 
0  ARRAY(0x6004f9c80)
   0  undef
   1  HASH(0x600636430)
      'fr' => 'un'
      'it' => 'uno'
      'sp' => 'uno'
   2  HASH(0x6005d18a8)
      'fr' => 'deux'
      'it' => 'due'
      'sp' => 'dos'
   3  HASH(0x6005d1920)
      'fr' => 'trois'
      'it' => 'tre'
      'sp' => 'tres'

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The advantage is that the array stays in order. Note that I created the first array element as undef, in order to have a natural correspondence between the element index and the numbers in he various languages (alternatively, I could have put a line for zero in all three languages). Each element of the array is a reference to a hash containing the number names in the various language.

To access to the Italian name of 2, simply try: 

print $numbers[2]{it};

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which should happily print "due".

In reply to Re: Need advice on checking two hashes values and keys by Laurent_R
in thread Need advice on checking two hashes values and keys by perlynewby

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