Re^3: grepping the location of a value from a datastructure

[derby]

Then you should probably invert your data structure. Instead of

my $hash = { base => { key => 'value', key2 => 'value2'}};

consider

my $hash = {
  "value"   => [
    { 'chapter' => 2, 'paragraph' => 10 },
    { 'chapter' => 2, 'paragraph' => 11 },
   ...
  ],
  "value2" => [ 
    { 'chapter' => 3, 'paragraph' => 1 }
  ]
};

[rastoboy]

You are a f*cking genius. LMAO.

Of course, that would work perfectly!

Thanks! I'd still be interested if anyone has other clever ideas though, in principle.