Using a HOH (Hash-of-hashes) would make this program easier to read and maintain.

The code below is a guess at what you want to do - I have added parameters I feel would be necessary for your DB handling. 

use strict;
use warnings;

my %people;
my @sentences = ("here i am","i am me");
  # Create $people{me} - it contains a HASH-REFERENCE
$people{me} = {ROW=>0,
       DOB=>1985,
       SPEAK=>[@sentences], # This element is an array-reference, crea
+ted from a copy of the array @sentences
      };

@sentences = ("there she is");
$people{friend} = {ROW=>  1,
           DOB=> "1984",
                   SPEAK=>[@sentences] # 
                  };

foreach my $person (sort keys  %people) # Use the KEYS function to get
+ hash keys, then sort them
{
  addDOBToDatabase( $people{$person}->{ROW}, $person, $people{$person}
+->{DOB});
  my $sentenceRow = 0;
  foreach my $sentence ( @{ $people{$person}->{SPEAK} }) # Walk throug
+h each element of the array-reference
  {
    $sentenceRow++;
       addSentenceToDatabase( $sentenceRow, $people{$person}->{ROW}, $
+sentence);
  }  
}

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You need to understand hashes, and references, to follow this code.

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In reply to Re: Help with Hash or Arrays by NetWallah
in thread Help with Hash or Arrays by Anonymous Monk

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