The following is a bit carried away but I think it might be usefull one way or the other.

As far as I know 

foreach (keys %$data )  { bla....

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causes $data to be deferenced on each iteration of the loop, which may become expensive if you have a huge amount of stuff in $data

One may extract the keys before the loop, use a temporary array which will be used for the loop (and while freeing resources) like this: 

my @tmp_ary = keys %$data;
while(my $item = shift @tmp_ary) {
    do stuff...
}

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After the loop @tmp_ary will still be there but empty.

Hope this helps
RL

In reply to Re: printing refence of hash inside a hash by RL
in thread printing refence of hash inside a hash by opensourcer

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