Hi monks! I am searching for a robust module that would provide a way to iterate through an arbitrary and complex data structure. I wrote a module that does this on my own (with speed and robustness problems), however, this seems like such a common task that I'm pretty sure that there HAS to be a nice, robust CPAN or core module that would do the thing. The module I wrote works like this: 

    my $iter = StructIterator->new ( 
        struct => $my_struct, 
    );
  
    while  ( $iter->next ) {
        my $value                       = $iter->yield; 
        my $hash_key_or_array_index     = $iter->index;
        my $current_depth               = $iter->level;
        ## ...
    }

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Basically I am looking for the same thing, only robust (handling of circ. refs, blessed refs,...) and fast. There is the Data::Walk module, but I didn't really like it that much - it is not really an iterator (you provide a callback coderefs), and I don't like the way it iterates over hashes - it yields a value for a key and the next callback will yield the value. Does anybody know about something that would suit my needs? I looked all over the web and all I found was the Data::Walk module.

In reply to Iterating arbitrary data structure by perlphx

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