Hello Monks,
I need a hash that points to an of Array of Arrays data struct. The data struct looks ok but the hash data itself is wrong. I am loading the first value in the record set in the other three positions.

How do I evaluate the existence data in this hash that contains an array of array?

Is there a more efficient way to load this data struct?

Recordset looks like the following: 
334       Capped                  28       5034366      16777215      
+    NULL   NULL           NULL    
                  
 373       Capped                  28       5034366      16777215     
+     NULL   NULL           NULL

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This shows the current data struct. Notice that the data is the same in the arrays. This output is from Data::Dumper. 
$VAR147 = '5034510';
$VAR148 = &#091
            &#091
              '308',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093,
            &#091
              '308',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093,
            &#091
              '308',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093,
            &#091
              '308',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093
          ]

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It should look like this: 
$VAR147 = '5034510';
$VAR148 = &#091
            &#091
              '308',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093,
            &#091
              '334',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093,
            &#091
              '373',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093,
            &#091
              '291',
              'Capped      ',
              210,
              16777215,
              undef,
              undef
            &#093
          ]

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This is the code that loads the hash and array of arrays data struct. Something is wrong it loads only the first value in the recordset. 

sub insert_carrier_values {
    my $array_ref = shift;
    my $hash_ref  = shift;

    for my $aref (@$array_ref) {
    #element 3 in the Hash Key
        if ( $aref->[3] > 0 ) {

#Load the Array of Array with all the records from the query with the 
+same element #3 if the Array does
#not have something alreay there in postion 0
 
            $hash_ref->{ $aref->[3] }[0] = [
                $aref->[0], $aref->[1], $aref->[2],
                $aref->[4], $aref->[5], $aref->[6]
              ]
              unless defined( $rank{ $aref->[3] }->[0][0] );
# Same as above but now load postion # 1 if postion 0 if full
            $hash_ref->{ $aref->[3] }[1] = [
                $aref->[0], $aref->[1], $aref->[2],
                $aref->[4], $aref->[5], $aref->[6]
              ]
              unless defined( $rank{ $aref->[3] }->[1][0] );
# Same as above but now load postion # 2 if postion 1 if full

            $hash_ref->{ $aref->[3] }[2] = [
                $aref->[0], $aref->[1], $aref->[2],
                $aref->[4], $aref->[5], $aref->[6]
              ]
              unless defined( $rank{ $aref->[3] }->[2][0] );

# Same as above but now load postion # 3 if postion 2 if full

            $hash_ref->{ $aref->[3] }[3] = [
                $aref->[0], $aref->[1], $aref->[2],
                $aref->[4], $aref->[5], $aref->[6]
              ]
              unless defined( $rank{ $aref->[3] }->[3][0] );
        }
    }

}    # end sub insert_carrier_values

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In reply to Loading of Complex Data Structures by vegasjoe

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