my @cols; my @row; sub hash2csv { my $h = shift; my $p = shift || 'top'; foreach my $k ( keys %{$h} ) { if (ref $h->{$k} eq ref {}) { hash2csv( $h->{$k}, $k ); } else { if ( $p eq 'top' ) { push @cols, $k; } else { push @cols, "$p.$k"; } push @row, $h->{$k}; } } }