in reply to looping in a hashtable

Your problem statements in recent submissions are rather confusing.

I think the structure you are seeking is a HASH-OF-ARRAYS. Something like this:

my %Accountinfo; $Accountinfo{E200} = [200, 300, 400]; $Accountinfo{E400} = ["EFG"]; #Now , you can iterate through all stores for all accounts: for my $acct (sort keys %Accountinfo){ for my $store (@{ $Accountinfo{$acct} } ){ print "Account $acct has store $store\n"; } }
If this is confusing, please study REFERENCES in perl. (perldoc perlref from a command line).

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