The easiest way to process data structures of variable depth and complexity is recursion:

#! perl -slw use strict; sub weightedSum { my( $r, $weight ) = ( @_, 1 ); my $sum = 0; for ( @$r ) { if( ref ) { $sum += weightedSum( $_, $weight + 1 ); } else { $sum += $_ * $weight; } } return $sum; } my $arrref = [ [1,1,1,1], [1,1, [2,2] ], [1, [2, [3,3] ] ] ]; print weightedSum( $arrref );

Produces:

C:\test>1152751 56

A variation:

#! perl -slw use strict; use List::Util qw[ reduce ]; $a = $b; ## silence warning sub weightedSum { my( $r, $weight ) = ( @_, 1 ); return reduce{ $a += ( ref( $b ) ) ? weightedSum( $b, $weight + 1 ): $b * $we +ight } 0, @$r; } my $arrref = [ [1,1,1,1], [1,1, [2,2] ], [1, [2, [3,3] ] ] ]; print weightedSum( $arrref );

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In reply to Re: Iterating elements at different level by BrowserUk
in thread Iterating elements at different level by punitpawar

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