Nearly! I think you're on the right lines. Perhaps a hash of hashes would get you started? 
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my %Services = (
  1 => {
    serviceid => "1",
    name => "servicea",
    host => [ qw(hosta hostb)],
  },
  2 => {
    serviceid => "2",
    name => "serviceb",
    host => [ qw(hostc) ],
  },
);
 
print Dumper \%Services;

my $service = 1;
my @hosts = @{$Services{$service}{host}};
print "@hosts";

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output: 
$VAR1 = {
  '1' => {
    'name' => 'servicea',
    'serviceid' => '1',
    'host' => [
      'hosta',
      'hostb'
    ]
  },
  '2' => {
    'name' => 'serviceb',
    'serviceid' => '2',
    'host' => [
      'hostc'
    ]
  }
};

hosta hostb

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In reply to Re: Question about data structures by wfsp
in thread Question about data structures by wishartz

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