I am trying to iterate through what I thought was an array of lists. Here is the first piece of the dataset:

$VAR1 = {
          'timestamp' => '2011-05-21T18:21:40.588Z',
          'version' => '1.10.0',
          'ack' => 'Success',
          'paginationOutput' => {
                                'totalPages' => '59',
                                'pageNumber' => '1',
                                'entriesPerPage' => '100',
                                'totalEntries' => '5812'
                              },
          'searchResult' => {
                            'count' => '100',
                            'item' => [
                                      {
                                        'primaryCategory' => {
                                                             'category
+Id' => '63850',
                                                             'category
+Name' => 'Mixed Items & Lots'
                                                           },
                                        'distance' => {
                                                      'unit' => 'mi',
                                                      'content' => '18
+75.0'
                                                    },
                                        'sellingStatus' => {
                                                           'convertedC
+urrentPrice' => {
                                                                      
+                'currencyId' => 'USD',
                                                                      
+                'content' => '1.0'
                                                                      
+              },
                                                           'currentPri
+ce' => {
                                                                      
+       'currencyId' => 'USD',
                                                                      
+       'content' => '1.0'
                                                                      
+     },
                                                           'sellingSta
+te' => 'Active',
                                                           'timeLeft' 
+=> 'P3DT18H28M2S',
                                                           'bidCount' 
+=> '0'
                                                         },

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You can also view the full thing at ugexe.com/file.txt but it repeats itself a lot (and i've included the relevant part). Here is how I am attempting to iterate and grab the values:

foreach my $n ( $hash->{'searchResult'}->{'item'} ) {
   my $item = { item_link => $n->{'viewItemURL'},
                item_number => $n->{'itemId'},  
                title => $n->{'title'},
                subtitle => $n->{'subtitle'},
                current_bid => $n->{'currentPrice'}->{'content'},
          
      
      };
}

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My error comes when I try to create the anonymous list using $n->{'viewItemURL'} (or whatever viewItemUrl may be). It tells me $n is not a hash reference. So I am a little confused on how I am suppose to get the values from this dataset.

In reply to How do I iterate through this data set? by uG

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