Re: how to iterate over multiple hashes with same key value

by hdb (Monsignor)

on Jul 02, 2013 at 06:12 UTC ( [id://1041961]=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

I see two options:

As per your script, you populate %hash and ~~%population~~%location in such a way that they have the same keys. So you could just move the print statement from your "locations" loop into the "users" loop (it would also make sense to rename %hash to %users).
Alternatively, you could add another dimension to your %hash such that you store both times and locations in the hash. For example:
```
   push (@{$hash{$word2}{'times'}},$word1);
   push (@{$hash{$word2}{'locations'}},$word3);
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```
This way you would keep the data closer together.