Hello monks,

Working to finish up an assignment tonight and I have gotten stuck on trying to convert an HoH to an array. I am attempting to extract an @array from the following data structure:

$hash{$w1}{$w2} =
    {
        total_counts => $tot_counts,
        words => {
                       $nw => $count,
                 }
    }

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Basically I want to import all the keys from HoH 'words' (possibly using several '$nw's as keys) into and @array $count times each. I will then use the array function 'rand()' to randomly retrieve and print the content of one of @array's elements.

I have tried to uses the following code, with no sucess:

@newarray = $hash{ $w1 }->{ $w2 }->{ words };

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I know that was kind of a stab in the dark, but I am having problems figuring out how to extract each individual value of $nw and use it as a key which is then pushed into an array $count times. My thanks and gratitude to anyone who can show me the way to accomplish this.

-mox

In reply to importing all the values stored in an HoH into an array by chinamox

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