I can't follow what you are looking for. You've provided pseudo-code and left out quite a bit of information that could be useful. For example, VAL1, VAL2, and VALX are barewords being used as keys? Are they constants (with use constant)? Are they scalars, but you left off the dollar signs?

Also, you appear to have a regex, but without the binding operator: '=' should be '=~'.

If you supply us with a sample of input data and what the resulting data structure should look like, that would help.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: local autovivification dismemberment... by Ovid
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