Hi Monks, I have a little piece of code that is going to be part of a larger program, but it seems a bit cumbersome. It does work, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution. I'm sure in perl it can be better. I have 3 reports (doc_request, doc_errors, and doc_types) and each report has 3 sections as you can see in the code. I need to access each section of each report in the order presented...so T_Doc_Request 1st, then N_Doc_Request, followed by X_Doc_Request, then T_Doc_Errors, followed by N_Doc_Errors, etc..

my @reports = qw /doc_request doc_errors doc_types /;
my %rpt =
 (
    doc_request => [ "T_Doc_Request, N_Doc_Request, X_Doc_Request" ],
    doc_errors  => [ "T_Doc_Errors, N_Doc_Errors, X_Doc_Errors" ],
    doc_types  => [ "T_Doc_Types, N_Doc_Errors, X_Doc_Errors" ],
 );

my @queries;

foreach (@reports) {
@queries = split /,/, "@{$rpt{$_}}";
 foreach (@queries) {
  print "section is: $_\n";
 }
  splice(@queries);
}

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

In reply to Need more elegant solution by dirtdog

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