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Hi Monks! I've got a bit of a question which i'm hoping could make one of my scripts a bit more concise

Essentially i have a hash of arrays (massively simplified):

my %hash=('ID' => { 'key1' => [key1_val1, key1_val2], 'key2' => [key2_val1, key2_val2] } );

And i need to expand it out to look like this:

ID, 1, key1_val1, key2_val1 ID, 2, key1_val1, key2_val2 ID, 3, key1_val2, key2_val1 ID, 4, key1_val2, key2_val2

So each key is a field of data With various values and i need to expand out a single line for each combination given. As i said, this i massively simplified and i actually have ~15 'keys' and each can have about 11-12 values in it's array.

I'm currently doing it the obvious way of:

my $id2=1; my %data=(); foreach my $id (keys(%hash)) { foreach my $key1_val (@{$hash{$id}{'key1'}}) { foreach my $key2_val (@{$hash{$id}{'key2'}}) { $id2++; $data{$id}{$id2}{'key1'}=$key1_val; $data{$id}{$id2}{'key2'}=$key2_val; } } }

Which is fine but everytime i add a new field it get a bit unwieldy. I have "foreach" statements running off the side of the monitor and onto my wall!! Help!

Apologies if there's any mistakes in the above. It's been a long day. Any help appreciated as ever!


In reply to Massive expansion of a hash of arrays? by Amblikai

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