Probably overkill for what you want, but it handles a mix of nested hashes and arrays, and a few other refs as well.

sub traverse(&$) { my( $code, $ref ) = @_; my $d; $d = { SCALAR => sub{ my $code = shift; my $ref = shift; return $code->( @_, $$ref ); }, ARRAY => sub { my $code = shift; my $ref = shift; map $d->{ ref $ref->[ $_ ] }->( $code, $ref->[ $_ ], @_, $ +_ ), 0 .. $#$ref; }, HASH => sub { my $code = shift; my $ref = shift; map $d->{ ref $ref->{ $_ } }->( $code, $ref->{ $_ }, @_, $ +_ ), keys %$ref; }, REF => sub{ my $code = shift; my $ref = shift; return $d->{ ref $$ref }->( $code, $$ref, @_ ); }, CODE => sub{ my $code = shift; my $ref = shift; return $d->{ '' }->( $code, "$ref", @_ ); }, '' => sub{ my $code = shift; my $ref = shift; return $code->( @_, $ref ); }, }; return $d->{ ref $ref }->( $code, $ref ); } traverse { print join ',', @_ } \%hash;

You can also use it like this to build an array:

my @strings = traverse{ join',', @_ } \%HorAofHorA;

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In reply to Re: Arbitrarily Nested HoH by BrowserUk
in thread Arbitrarily Nested HoH by Limbic~Region

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