One method is to use recursion in combination with dispatch tables:
use strict;
use warnings;
my %dispatch =
(
# scalar
'' => sub { my ( $element, $op ) = @_;
$op->( $element );
},
'HASH' => sub { my ( $element, $op ) = @_;
for my $key (keys %{$element}) {
search_and_replace_in_hash( $element->{$key}, $op );
}
},
'ARRAY' => sub { my ( $element, $op ) = @_;
search_and_replace_in_hash( $_, $op) for @{$element};
},
'default' => sub { my ( $element, $op ) = @_;
print STDERR ref($element).": unknown type of reference\
+n"
},
);
# operates on references
sub search_and_replace_in_hash {
&{ $dispatch{ ref($_[0]) } // $dispatch{'default'} }(@_);
}
my $var = { "0x55555555" => { "0x55555555" => [ ["0xAAAAAAAA", "0x9"],
+ ],
"0xAAAAAAAA" => [ ["0xAAAAAAAA", "0x8"], ], },
"0xAAAAAAAA" => { "0x55555555" => [ ["0xFFFFFFFF", "0x8"], ],
"0xAAAAAAAA" => [ ["0x55555554", "0x3"], ], }, };
search_and_replace_in_hash( $var, sub { $_ =~ s/0x//; } );
search_and_replace_in_hash( $var, sub { print "$_\n"; } ); # no need f
+or Data::Dumper
For other types of references, you need to expand the dispatch table accordingly.
Thanks to Rolf for his helpful comments above.
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