If you never have anything besides "tcp" under "ip1" (or "ip2", etc), then "tcp" represents an unnecessary layer in the structure -- based on the sample data you show, the top-level keys could just as well be "ip1.tcp", "ip2.tcp", etc.

Anyway, something like this would produce the output format you suggested: 

for my $ip ( sort keys %host ) {
    print "$ip\n";
    for my $proto ( sort keys %{$host{$ip}} ) { # assuming there will 
+be keys other than "tcp"
        for my $port ( sort {$a<=>$b} keys %{$host{$ip}{$proto}} ) {
            printf( "%3d\t%s\t%s\n", $port,
                    $host{$ip}{$proto}{$port}{state},
                    $host{$ip}{$proto}{$port}{service} );
        }
    }
}

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Note how the curly braces are placed around  $host{$ip} and then also around  $host{$ip}{$proto} so that these hash values (which happen to be a references to another hash) can be dereferenced for use with the "keys" function -- the "%" outside of those exta curlies tells perl to pass the entire dereferenced hash to "keys".

In reply to Re: lost in my data structure. by graff
in thread lost in my data structure. by lepetitalbert

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