After a lot of help from liverpole, I think I've straightened this out. At the very least, it's giving me the output I was looking for.

Here's the final version for the curious:

sub unpack_row($@); 
sub unpack_row($@){
    my $hash = shift(@_);
    my @row = @_;

    my @stack;
    if(ref($hash) eq 'HASH'){
        my $header = $hash->{'header'};
        while(my ($key, $value) = each(%$hash)){
             push(@stack, unpack_row($value, (@row, $key)));
        }
    }
    else {
        return([@row, $hash]);
    }
    return @stack;
}

my $hash = {};
$hash->{'foo'}->{'bar'}->{'bat'} = 5;
$hash->{'foo'}->{'bar'}->{'bird'} = 2;
$hash->{'goo'}->{'tab'}->{'bird'} = 2;
print Dumper($hash);
print Dumper(unpack_row($hash, ()));

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which generates the following output: 
$VAR1 = {
          'goo' => {
                     'tab' => {
                                'bird' => 2
                              }
                   },
          'foo' => {
                     'bar' => {
                                'bat' => 5,
                                'bird' => 2
                              }
                   }
        };
$VAR1 = [
          'goo',
          'tab',
          'bird',
          2
        ];
$VAR2 = [
          'foo',
          'bar',
          'bat',
          5
        ];
$VAR3 = [
          'foo',
          'bar',
          'bird',
          2
        ];

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In reply to Re^2: Recursive function always returns 0 by jpfarmer
in thread Recursive function always returns 0 by jpfarmer

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