The output ends up looking like this: 
Use of uninitialized value in anonymous hash ({}) at /Users/ben/Work/c
+ert/mine/restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /Users/ben/Work/cert/mine/
+restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in anonymous hash ({}) at /Users/ben/Work/c
+ert/mine/restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /Users/ben/Work/cert/mine/
+restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in anonymous hash ({}) at /Users/ben/Work/c
+ert/mine/restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /Users/ben/Work/cert/mine/
+restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in anonymous hash ({}) at /Users/ben/Work/c
+ert/mine/restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /Users/ben/Work/cert/mine/
+restruct line 33, <$fh> line 1.
[...]
{
  "" => { items => {} },
  "2017-08-30T22:47:28.941Z" => "clusters",
  "allHostsConfig" => undef,
  "HASH(0x7f91e29911a8)" => "hosts",
  "HASH(0x7f91e29c8c18)" => "timestamp",
  "HASH(0x7f91e29c8f30)" => "hostTemplates",
  "HASH(0x7f91e29d1720)" => undef,
  "managementService" => "mgmt",
  "peers" => {},
[...]

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I see what you're trying to do, though - which gives me lots of ideas. Thank you!

In reply to Re^2: Recursive data structure munging - arrayrefs to hashrefs by flightdm
in thread Recursive data structure munging - arrayrefs to hashrefs by flightdm

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