Fellow Monasterians,

First, apologies for that convoluted title.

Here's the scenario:

• need to use AoH's for HTML::Template
• would like to take all the elements in the AoH with a key of one value and assign them to a new AoH for one loop, and then all the elements with a different value from that same key and assign it to a second AoH for another loop

So:

my $AoH = [ { name   => "Bob",
              gender => "M" },
            { name   => "Sue",
              gender => "F" },
            { name   => "Mike",
              gender => "M" } ];
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And then magically:

my $template->param( men   => all pairs where $AoH{gender] eq "M",
                     women => all pairs where $AoH{gender] eq "F" );
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Loop code I would normally use:

my ($men, $women);
my $m = 0;
my $w = 0;   
for my $i ( 0 .. $#$AoH ) {
   if ($AoH->[$i]{gender} eq "M") {
      $men->[$m] = $AoH->[$i];
      $m++;
   } else {
      $women->[$w] = $AoH->[$i];
      $w++; 
   }
 }
 
my $template->param( men   => $men,
                     women => $women );
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Just looking for a cleaner way to do this. Thanks!

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