I have a great big file that contains an unsorted, multilingual lexicon, that I am sorting, based on language. I've written code to do this a couple times, and am now looking for a more elegant solution to the problem. My question is, how can I (if there is, indeed, a way) print certain elements from the hash to different files, without explicitly specifying the file to which I want to print. My hash looks something like this

 $lexica{$language}{$word}{$counter}{$transcription}

What I would like to do is print everything correctly, according to language, with a single for loop, which, in my head, looks something like this: 
foreach my $key (sort keys %lexica) {
   foreach $counter (keys(%{$lexica{$language}{$word}} )) {
      print $key "~$lexica{$language} \/$lexica{$language}{$word}{$cou
+nter}\/ \n";
      }
   }
}

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In reply to Printing different hash elements to different files by wouldbewarrior

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