Monks

I've come up against a problem which I think can be resolved with an array of hashes but im not quite sure how to proceed i've tried various ways but its starting to frustrate a little now.

I have an hash of hashes data structure which is work fine for one key to one value

$VAR1 = 'mode';
$VAR2 = {
          'type' => ' auto mode',
          'action' => ' completed on own.'
        };
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An using the below snippet of code to print the hash values out

 for(sort keys %component)
    {
        print "$_,$component{$_}{type},$component{$_}{action}\n";
       }
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The problem is, some times the key can have different values based on an override switch

$VAR1 = 'mode'
$VAR2 = {
          'switch1' => {
                            'type' => ' auto mode for switch1',
                            'action' => ' completed with assistance.'
                          },
          'switch2' => {
                        'type' => ' auto mode for switch2',
                        'action' => 'completed on own.'
                      },
          'switch3' => {
                          'type' => ' auto mode for switch3'
                          'action' => ' rasied alarm, incident reporte
+d.',
                        },
          'switch4' => {
                              'type' => ' manual mode for switch4',
                              'action' => ' complete process manually
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Any assistance on how I could generate and print this data structure would be greatly appreciated