well yes, I currently use JSON to do a similar recursive directory list output, where I don't need to retain the order of the pages: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON;

sub rec_tree {
my $n = $_[0] = {};
my @s;

find( sub {
$n = (pop @s)->[1] while @s and $File::Find::dir ne $s[-1][0];

return $n->{$_} = data_me($_) if -f;
/$bandir/ and $File::Find::prune = 1;
/$hidedir/ and $File::Find::prune = 1;
push @s,[ $File::Find::name,$n ];

$n = $n->{$_} = {};
}, $_[1]);

$_[0]{$_[1]} = delete $_[0]{'.'};
}

my $out;
rec_tree($out,shift);
my $jsout = JSON->new->allow_nonref->encode($out);

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but as I mentioned, a similar recursive approach to parsing the @path data above defeats me, hence the hard coding, which at least retains the correct order in the output..

In reply to Re^2: recursive alternative for nested array to JSON script? by davepilbeam
in thread recursive alternative for nested array to JSON script? by davepilbeam

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