Hi Forsaken real data looks like this

$VAR1 = {                                                  
 'EXCLUSTER01' => {                                        
    'IBFFTDSD72N01A' => {                                  
        'D280_3_TH' => {                                   
             'A' => {                                      
                 'TH_EXCLUSTER01_03' => 999,               
                 'TH_EXCLUSTER01_02' => 999,               
                 'TH_EXCLUSTER01_01' => 999                
                     }                                     
                        }                                  
                         }                                 
  },                                                       

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It represents the clusters and hosts within a storage array network ie group->hosts->disk arrays->disk controller->volumes. I'm writing a sysadm tool which allows the user to 'drill' into this recursive information. I don't think repetition within the tree is a problem