Dear Monks,

I am trying to parse the json response I get with:

$query='AA Tauri';
my $url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query
+&prop=extracts&exintro&explaintext&redirects=1&titles=' . $query;
my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
    my $response = $ua->request($req);
    
if ($response->is_success) {
    print "SUCCESS!\n";
    my $json_text= $response->content;  
    my $decoded_json = decode_json( $json_text );
    print Dumper $decoded_json;
}

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The result of Dumper is:

$VAR1 = {
          'query' => {
                       'pages' => {
                                    '25111030' => {
                                                    'pageid' => 251110
+30,
                                                    'extract' => 'AA T
+auri is a young star in the constellation of Taurus, located in the y
+oung Taurus-Auriga Star Forming Region, roughly at 460 light years aw
+ay from the Sun.',
                                                    'title' => 'AA Tau
+ri',
                                                    'ns' => 0
                                                  }
                                  }
                     },
          'batchcomplete' => ''
        };

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I get a hash of hashes (never been good with...). I need to put into a scalar the value of 'extract'. Normally I go directly to a particular value given the keys that define it, something like:

my $val = $decoded_json {query}{pages}{XXX}{extract};

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But the value in XXX is always different. How can I get the value of 'extract'?

In reply to hash of hashes parsing problem by Takamoto

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