Hi soundX,

Is there a better way to do this?

That depends, personally I like the map solution, but if your data structure is more complicated than the small example you've shown then perhaps there is an even better solution. Note that the solution given by Corion, based on your code, only pulls the first value out of the nested array, if the nested arrays have a different number of values in them then another approach might be more appropriate. Here are some variations to play around with (JSON output manually sorted):

use warnings;
use strict;
use JSON::MaybeXS;

my $rows   = [["val1"],["val2"]];
my $rows_a = [[],["val2","val3"]];
my $return;
$return->{'key1'}   = [join(', ', map { $_->[0] } @$rows)];
$return->{'key2'}   = [map { $_->[0] } @$rows];
$return->{'key3'}   = [map { @$_     } @$rows];
$return->{'key2_a'} = [map { $_->[0] } @$rows_a];
$return->{'key3_a'} = [map { @$_     } @$rows_a];
print encode_json($return), "\n";

__END__
{
"key1":["val1, val2"],
"key2":["val1","val2"],
"key3":["val1","val2"],
"key2_a":[null,"val2"],
"key3_a":["val2","val3"]
}

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Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^3: Quoting each word in an arrayref by haukex
in thread Quoting each word in an arrayref by soundX

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