How to iterate through a hash of hashes?

matt.schnarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there,

I am attempting to iterate through a hash of hashes, however, I am not sure of the correct way to do so.

I have the following hash:

$hash{"192.168.0.1"}{"randy"} = "thomas";
$hash{"192.168.0.1"}{"ken"} = "samual";
$hash{"192.168.0.2"}{"jessie"} = "jessica";
$hash{"192.168.0.2"}{"terry"} = "ryan";
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I would like to be able to iterate over the entire set and print out the 4 values: thomas, samual, jessica and ryan

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

Matt

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Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jan 11, 2005 at 19:24 UTC
see keys... `foreach my $outter (keys %hash) { foreach my $inner (keys %{$hash{$outter}}) { print "$outter - $inner = ", $hash{$outter}{$inner}, "\n"; } }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jan 11, 2005 at 19:28 UTC
`{ local ($,, $\) = ($/, $/); print values %{$_} for values %hash; }` [download] The output seperators provide the format, the for loop puts hash references in $_. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 11, 2005 at 19:49 UTC
This method recursively drops down to the bottom level of any depth of hash of hashes, and prints the end values. `use strict; use warnings; my %hash = ( "192.168.0.1" => { "randy" => "thomas", "ken" => "samual" }, "192.168.0.2" => { "jessie" => "jessica", "terry" => "ryan" } ); traverse( \%hash ); sub traverse { if( ref( $_[0] ) =~ /HASH/ ) { traverse( $_[0]{$_} ) foreach keys %{$_[0]}; } else { print "$_[0]\n"; } }` [download] The limit to levels of depth is 100 for most Perls, unless you turn off the warning for deep recursion with `no warnings qw/recursion/;` inside the `traverse()`sub. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by friedo (Prior) on Jan 11, 2005 at 19:26 UTC
For a two level hash, simply create two nested loops. `foreach my $okey( keys %hash ) { my $inner = $hash{$okey}; foreach my $ikey( keys %$inner ) { print $inner->{$ikey}, "\n"; } }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by elwarren (Priest) on Jan 11, 2005 at 20:08 UTC
Just to be different, save a step and use each: `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %hash = (); $hash{"192.168.0.1"}{"randy"} = "thomas"; $hash{"192.168.0.1"}{"ken"} = "samual"; $hash{"192.168.0.2"}{"jessie"} = "jessica"; $hash{"192.168.0.2"}{"terry"} = "ryan"; foreach my $ip (keys %hash) { while (my ($key, $value) = each %{ $hash{$ip} } ) { print "$key = $value \n"; } }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by wee (Scribe) on Jan 11, 2005 at 20:38 UTC
You can use map inside a foreach loop as well: `my %hash; $hash{"192.168.0.1"}{"randy"} = "thomas"; $hash{"192.168.0.1"}{"ken"} = "samual"; $hash{"192.168.0.2"}{"jessie"} = "jessica"; $hash{"192.168.0.2"}{"terry"} = "ryan"; foreach my $key1 ( keys %hash ) { map { print $hash{$key1}->{$_}, "\n" } keys %{$hash{$key1}}; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by bsb (Priest) on Jan 11, 2005 at 22:30 UTC
`use Data::Rmap; rmap { print "$_\n" } \%hash thomas samual ryan jessica` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by xtype (Deacon) on Jan 11, 2005 at 21:53 UTC
Zaxo++ And then there is always this: `use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(\%hash);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to iterate through a hash of hashes? by DrHyde (Prior) on Jan 12, 2005 at 09:39 UTC
I love the smell of homework in the morning. Show us what you've tried, and explain how you've tried debuggering it.	[reply]


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