I am having a problem accessing information in a hash of an array containing hashes & arrays. I don't really understand how it is done. I can access the array in the hash, but beyond that, I am in trouble.

The following is the array, basically the value of the key if I understand this correctly.

Volume: alpha: 0 512 1048576 1 HASH(0x8580988) ARRAY(0x8580958) HASH(0x8580eb0) -1 0 0 0 0 0 zfod 0

The following is the code that I have so far. Any ideas, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

for my $vol_key ( keys %::Volume_Info ) {
        print "Volume: $vol_key\n";
        foreach my $item ( @{ $::Volume_Info{$vol_key}} ) {
            if (ref($item) eq "ARRAY") {
                print "Array in Array item: $item\n";
            } elsif (ref($item) eq "HASH") {
                print "Hash in Array: $item\n";
            } else {
                print "Array Item: $item \n";
            }
        }
    }

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In reply to A hash of an array containing hashes & arrays by ebodine

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