in reply to multidimensional hash of array

You can get a lot of good advice on complex data structures by reading perldoc perlreftut and perldoc perldsc. Here are some clues:

@str = qw( 7 house network_name 4 6); #<--example of data if ($myhash{$str[2]}{$str[0]){ # if network_name is found increment the values of 3 and 4 ($myhash{$str[2]}{$str[0]}[3])++; ($myhash{$str[2]}{$str[0]}[4])++; } else { # must be new so ad new data to hash $myhash{$str[2]}{$str[0]} = [ @str ]; }
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