This is kind of similar to roboticus's post, and also in nature to wfsp's SQL suggestion (because this is how the data would end up coming out of it.

You could do the nested loop-age just once, and build an array of hashrefs that each have all the information. Then just loop through that whenever needed. 
my @targets;
while(my($env,$platform_href) = each %{$stuff}) {
    while(my($platform,$host_href) = each %{$platform_href}) {
        while(my($host,$target_href) = each %{$host_href}) {
            while(my($target,$capacity_href) = each %{$target_href}) {
                push @targets, {
                  env => $env,
                  platform => $platform,
                  host => $host,
                  target => $target,
                  total_capacity => $capacity_href->{'total_capacity'}
+,
                  free_capacity => $capacity_href->{'free_capacity'},
                };
            }
        }
    }
}

# now, whereever you previously had the 4 nested loops, just do:
foreach my $target ( @targets ){
  # Do stuff with these keys of %$target:
  #   env
  #   platform
  #   host
  #   target
  #   total_capacity
  #   free_capacity
}

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In reply to Re: Help with Hash of hashes, is there a better way? by davidrw
in thread Help with Hash of hashes, is there a better way? by TeraMarv

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