Hi,
First of all it will make it easier to understand your question if you put the code in code tags like below: 
@array1 = ( { 'url' => 'wp-content/uploads/2012/04/HB-177-Veto-Letter.
+pdf' , 'bill' => 'CS3', 'HB', '177', 'Inmate Reentry', 'Porth', '3/9/
+12', '3/30/12', 'VETO' }, { 'url' => 'uploads/2012/03/3.29.12-Transmi
+ttal-Letter-3.pdf' , 'bill' => 'CS1', 'HB', '697', ' School Board of 
+Sumter County', 'McBurney', '3/9/12', '3/16/12', 'VETO' }, { 'url' =>
+ 'tent/uploads/2012/04/HB-865-Veto-Letter.pdf' , 'bill' => '', 'HB', 
+'865', 'Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, Pinellas County', 'Hoope
+r', '3/9/12', '3/30/12', 'VETO' }, { 'url' => 't/uploads/2012/04/4.13
+.12-HB-917-Veto-Letter.pdf' , 'bill' => '', 'HB', '917', 'Jurisdictio
+n of the Courts', 'Bileca', '3/7/12', '3/30/12', 'VETO' }, { 'url' =>
+ 's/2012/04/HB-1117-Veto-Letter.pdf' , 'bill' => 'CS1', 'HB', '1117',
+ 'Conservation of Wildlife', 'Harrison', '3/9/12', '3/30/12', 'VETO' 
+} );

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To answer your question, I'm assuming there are also other solutions, but doing a loop is a very easy and simple solution that you should take into account: 
for my $line_hash (@array1){
    if ($line_hash->{'bill'} =~ /1117/){
       print "Found a match";
    }
}

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Hope this helps
Mister Guy

In reply to Re: perl array of hashes help by mrguy123
in thread perl array of hashes help by ragilla

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