#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use autodie; use JSON; my $json_file = 'pm_1219718_data.json'; my $json_text = do { open my $fh, '<', $json_file; local $/; <$fh> }; my $perl_data = decode_json $json_text; for (@{$perl_data->{observations}[0]{status}}) { print "$_->{path}\n" }