one way is to use a recursive sub, that 'walks' up the userid tree until it reaches a node without a manager (or a special id (like 0 or undef)

the other way is do the same as above, but use a stack and a loop

some pseudo code

# simple recursive sub
sub create_users {
my $user_href = shift;
my $userId = shift;

if(defined $user_href->{$userId} and $user_href->{$userId} != 0) {
create_users($user_href, $userId);
} else {
return;
}

# now write the user to the db
write_user_to_db($user_href, $userId

}

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I think the above should work :-)

In reply to Re: Problem with hash by ozone
in thread Problem with hash by shilpam

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