I am fairly new to perl, so please be patient. I am trying to compare a complex hash to an array of hashes. I have been successful, however my way I believe is slow. I have tried to do it another way, but I receive a different answer. I believe it has something to do with the slice operator and $index. The following is the ugly but successful way

my $matched=0;

foreach my $id (keys %manager){
    foreach my $manager (keys %{$manager{$id}}){        
        for my $i (0..$#{$manager{$id}{$manager}{'members'}}){
            my $index=0;
            foreach my $emp (@found){
                if ($emp->{'ID'}=~/$manager{$id}{$manager}{'members'}[
+$i]/i){
                    splice(@found, $index, 1);
                    print $emp->{'Name'} . "\n";
                    $matched++;}
                $index++;}}}}
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Here is the other, but unsuccessful approach:

my $matched=0;
my $index=0;

foreach my $emp (@found){
    DN: foreach my $id (keys %manager){
        foreach my $mgr (keys %{$manager{$id}}){
            for my $i(0..$#{$manager{$id}{$mgr}{'members'}}){
                if ($emp->{'ID'}=~/$manager{$id}{$mgr}{'members'}[$i]/
+i){
                    print $emp->{'Name'} . "\n";
                    $matched++;
                    splice(@found, $index, 1);
                    --$index;
                    last DN;}}}}
$index++;}
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I also have another question. I have a hash that looks something like

%hash= (
    $email => {
        name => 'joe'
        id = > '123' })
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I than push (@array, $hash{$email}); Is it than possible to get the value $email in the hash from the array?

foreach my $email (@array){
    print $email->{'name'};  #ok 
    print $email;}        #error hash refs
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Thanks for any help

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