Here are a couple of examples using while and each to loop through the data structure (requires Perl minimum version 5.12), and using map to transform the array into a list of the key values.

(I used your data-building technique for consistency.)

use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use Data::Dumper; my @arr = get_data(); say "Data:"; while ( my ($n, $aref) = each @arr ) { say " Aref: " . ($n + 1); while ( my ( $n, $href ) = each @{ $aref } ) { say " Href: " . ($n + 1); while ( my ( $key, $val ) = each %{ $href } ) { say " $key: $val"; } } } say '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'; my @vals = map { $_->{'myKey'} } map { @{ $_ } } @arr; say "Inner values:"; say Dumper \@vals; sub get_data { my @arr; my @subArr1; my @subArr2; my %hash1 = ( myKey => 1 ); my %hash2 = ( myKey => 2 ); my %hash3 = ( myKey => 3 ); my %hash4 = ( myKey => 4 ); push(@subArr1, \%hash1, \%hash2); push(@subArr2, \%hash3, \%hash4); push(@arr, \@subArr1, \@subArr2); return @arr; }
Output:
$ perl 1182753.pl Data: Aref: 1 Href: 1 myKey: 1 Href: 2 myKey: 2 Aref: 2 Href: 1 myKey: 3 Href: 2 myKey: 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Inner values: $VAR1 = [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ];

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Get hash values in multidimensional array by 1nickt
in thread Get hash values in multidimensional array to populate Term document matrix by lobs

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