Associating values in Arrays

[Maresia]

Hi Monks!
Need to associate these values, I guess by the "ACCOUNT" value in each array, but I can’t figure it out the best way to do it.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Template;
use Data::Dump 'pp';
use Data::Dumper;

  
my @princ;
push @princ, (
                {ACCOUNT=>'accountOne',NAME=>'name1',QDT=>'qdt1'},
                {ACCOUNT=>'account2',NAME=>'name2',QDT=>'qdt2'},
        {ACCOUNT=>'account3',NAME=>'name3',QDT=>'qdt3'},
           );

my @type = ();
push @type, (
              {HOME_NUMBER=>'house for first account',YEAR=>'year for 
+forst account',MONTH=>'the month for the first account', ACCOUNT=>'ac
+countOne',},
          {HOME_NUMBER=>'house sec account',YEAR=>'year for the second
+',MONTH=>'month for the second', ACCOUNT=>'account2',},
          {HOME_NUMBER=>'house for the 3rd account', YEAR=>'year for 3
+',MONTH=>'month for the third', ACCOUNT=>'account3',},
        
         );

my @person = ();
push @person, (
                {PERSON_ID=>'this is the id for the  first account',PE
+RSON=>'and the person for the first account',DATE=>'also the date for
+ the first account', ACCOUNT=>'accountOne',},
        {PERSON_ID=>'id for the sec2',PERSON=>'This is the person2',DA
+TE=>'The date forthe sec', ACCOUNT=>'account2',},
        {PERSON_ID=>'The id3',PERSON=>'person data for the third acc',
+DATE=>'The date matches the Third account', ACCOUNT=>'account3',},
          );

my @data=();
my @n_type=();
my @n_person=();

my $n;              
 for my $p (@princ){
   ++$n;

   # In this block, I am stuck
   for my $i (1..$n){
     push @n_type,  \@type;
     push @n_person, \@person;
   };  
    
  push @data,  
   {  PRINC =>1,PRINC_DATA => [$p],
      TYPE  =>1,TYPE_DATA  => \@n_type,
      PERSON=>1,PERSON_DATA=> \@n_person 
   };
}


# Create and Load Template
my $template_tmpl = HTML::Template->new( filehandle => \*DATA, die_on_
+bad_params => 1);
$template_tmpl->param( DATA => \@data );
...

Thanks for looking!

[Skeeve]

No idea what you define as "to associate".

Anyhow: Why do you push all entries into an array? Why not use a hash?

my %princ= (
 accountOne => {NAME=>'name1',QDT=>'qdt1'},
 account2   => {NAME=>'name2',QDT=>'qdt2'},
 account3   => {NAME=>'name3',QDT=>'qdt3'},
);

Do this for all your arrays and it shouldn't be a problem to access any entry by its account name.