How to navigate through a hash of hashes of arrays (?) to get to the first array entry

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I have the following output from Data::Dumper and I want to extract
the first string that the "Id" name points to.

$VAR1 = [
          bless( {
                   'Id' => [
                           '01tC0000003udXAIAY',
                           '01tC0000003udXAIAY'
                         ],
                   'type' => 'Product2'
                 }, 'sObject' )
        ];

  So if the data structure is contained in a Perl variable called
$data, then I think that this is a reference to a hash.

  So I need to do something like "@{$data}" to get to the hash.

  But I want the "Id" element of the hash so I want something like
@{$data}->{'Id'}

  But that's the array, so what about ${@{$data}->{'Id'}}[0]

  But that isn't right either.

  I'm either getting an undefined reference to a hash error or not a
scalar reference error.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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