G'day Magnolia25,

Here's yet another way to do this. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $VAR1 = {
    ... as per your OP ...
};

my (@all_states, @comment_states);

for (map values %$_, values %$VAR1) {
    my ($state, $comment) = ('', 0);

    for (@$_) {
        $state = substr $_, 11 if 0 == index $_, 'state_name=';
        $comment = 1 if 0 == index $_, 'comments=';
    }

    push @all_states, $state if $state;
    push @comment_states, $state if $comment;
}

use Data::Dump;
dd \@all_states;
dd \@comment_states;

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Output:

["Alaska", "Puerto Rico", "Washington", "West Virginia"]
["Washington", "West Virginia"]

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That handles the words '"comments" is present'; however, your example output suggests you want '"comments" is absent'. Changing if to unless in the second push: 

    push @comment_states, $state unless $comment;

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And the output becomes:

["West Virginia", "Washington", "Puerto Rico", "Alaska"]
["Puerto Rico", "Alaska"]

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I'll leave you to decide which you actually want. :-)

— Ken

In reply to Re: Get all hash value into array by kcott
in thread Get all hash value into array by Magnolia25

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