Maybe you want to structure your data as a HASHES OF HASHES, with the keys being the VLAN number (if they are unique), then you can sort by keys and print the data:
use warnings; use strict; my %vlan_nums = ( 112 => { name => "JP-WIRELESS", description => "JP-WIRELESS", ip => "192.168.207.1", mask => "255.255.255.0" }, 2113 => { name => "JP-IDF1-DATA", description => "JP-IDF1-DATA", ip => "10.136.113.1", mask => "255.255.255.0" } ); for my $num (sort keys %vlan_nums) { print <<EOF; VLAN number : $num VLAN name : $vlan_nums{$num}{name} VLAN description: $vlan_nums{$num}{description} VLAN ip : $vlan_nums{$num}{ip} VLAN mask : $vlan_nums{$num}{mask} EOF }

Which prints out:

VLAN number : 112 VLAN name : JP-WIRELESS VLAN description: JP-WIRELESS VLAN ip : 192.168.207.1 VLAN mask : 255.255.255.0 VLAN number : 2113 VLAN name : JP-IDF1-DATA VLAN description: JP-IDF1-DATA VLAN ip : 10.136.113.1 VLAN mask : 255.255.255.0

Data::Dumper is also handy for displaying Perl data structures.


In reply to Re^3: Creating Multidimensional Hashed Arrays? by toolic
in thread Creating Multidimensional Hashed Arrays? by spickles

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