in reply to Array consolidating values

I think that you want to reorganize an array of hashes into a hash of arrays.
use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @servers = ( { Host => 'server02', GroupName => 'serversA' }, { Host => 'server04', GroupName => 'serversA' }, { Host => 'server02', GroupName => 'serversB' }, { Host => 'server04', GroupName => 'serversB' }, { Host => 'server02', GroupName => 'serversC' }, { Host => 'server04', GroupName => 'serversC' }, { Host => 'server02', GroupName => 'serversD' }, ); my %consolidated; foreach (@servers) { push @{$consolidated{$_->{Host}}}, $_->{GroupName}; } print Dumper(\%consolidated);
OUTPUT: $VAR1 = { 'server02' => [ 'serversA', 'serversB', 'serversC', 'serversD' ], 'server04' => [ 'serversA', 'serversB', 'serversC' ] };
Bill