My head is killing me. I'm attempting to convert a HoH containing linkages between items into an AoA containing sets of linked items. Basically, take the following:
$start = { 'lineitem' => { 'invoice' => 1 }, 'market_x_branch' => { 'insurer' => 1 }, 'invoice' => { 'lineitem' => 1 }, 'insurer' => { 'market_x_branch' => 1 } };
and convert it into:
$end = [ [ 'lineitem', 'invoice' ], [ 'market_x_branch', 'insurer' ] ];

Now, I've got code that will pass that test. That code is:

foreach my $x (keys %$start) { next unless exists $start->{$x}; my @values = ($x, keys %{$start->{$x}}); push @$end, \@values; delete $start->{$_} for @values; }

The problem is that the following test is failing and I simply cannot wrap my head around it.

$start = { 'lineitem' => { 'invoice' => 1 }, 'invoice' => { 'lineitem' => 1, 'claim' => 1 }, 'insurer' => { 'claim' => 1 }, 'claim' => { 'invoice' => 1, 'insurer' => 1 } }; $end = [ [ 'invoice', 'claim', 'insurer', 'lineitem', ], ];

The order of the elements in $end and the sub-arrays in $end is completely unimportant, as I'm treating it as a set, not a list.

Any suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated.

Update: Added the code I'm using.

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In reply to Reducing HoH to AoA by dragonchild

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