You all definitely helped! Thx agn. I want my end result to look like b/c all I need is one hdisk string b/c they are all different logical paths to the same LUN. I don't need the 'state=enabled' part and tried using (split)[0] but failed. Once I have this I will then integrate another system command (or a 2nd hash value) on the value hdisk368 for example to get its serial number. 
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$VAR1 = {
          'SAN_VC0_42' => {
                            'hdisk368' => 'state=enabled',
                          }
        };

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I was playing with, but was side-tracked. 
print ((<DATA>)[-1]);
__DATA__

Device:    SAN_VC0_42
devicetag: SAN_VC0_42
type:      auto
info:      format=none
flags:     online ready private autoconfig invalid
pubpaths:  block=/dev/vx/dmp/SAN_VC0_42 char=/dev/vx/rdmp/SAN_VC0_42
Multipathing information:
numpaths:   8
hdisk35 state=enabled
hdisk100        state=enabled
hdisk303        state=enabled
hdisk368        state=enabled
hdisk571        state=enabled
hdisk636        state=enabled
hdisk839        state=enabled
hdisk904        state=enabled

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In reply to Re^2: trying HoH by mikejones
in thread trying HoH by mikejones

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