[resolved] from arrays, trying to make a common name print just once.

[bazz]

Hi,

I have resolved the intial issue but have left it here for the serach engine.
I have a new small issue which I shall post separately.

I am trying to build a flyout menu, which will show the following labels:
County->businessSubType->businessCategory->businessName.

The html and perl are shown below. I have it OK for the level - County but, Guesthouses and the others print out as many times as they are in the arrays.

Can any of you please help me make a mulitiple use of a var ouput only once - EG Guesthouses? I tried but it interefered with Down so that it outputted tons of times.

here's the perl

@listOfDirs = map{join'_', (split/_/)[1,2,4,5,0,3]} sort map{join'_', (split/_/)[4,0,1,5,2,3]} @listOfDirs;

foreach ( @listOfDirs ) {
chomp;
my ($businessName, $businessType, $businessSubType, $businessCat, $businesslocalRegion, $county, $grid) = split /_/;
$dirs{$county}{$businessCat}{$businessSubType}{$businessName}{$businessLocalRegion}{$businessType}{$ grid} = $_;
}

foreach my $county (sort keys %dirs) {
foreach my $businessCat (sort keys %{ $dirs{$county} }) {
foreach my $businessSubType (sort keys %{ $dirs{$county}{$businessCat} }) {
foreach my $businessName (sort keys %{ $dirs{$county}{$businessCat}{$businessSubType} }) {

if ( $county ne $countyGroup ) {
if ( $countyGroup ne '' ) { # ugly hack (better with hash arrays)
}
$countyGroup = $county;

print <<EOF;
<li><a href="#">$county</a><ul>
EOF

} # end of if countyGroup;

print qq(
<li><a href="#">$businessSubType</a>
<li><a href="#">$businessName</a></li>
);

} # end of foreach businessName
} # end of foreach businessSubType
} # end of foreach businessCat
} # end of foreach county




and here's the html outputted

<div id="control_panel_index_pages">
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="#">Warwickshire</a><ul>

<li><a href="#">Guesthouse</a>
<li><a href="#">business Name</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Guesthouse</a>
<li><a href="#">another business name</a></li>

<li><a href="#">BnB</a>
<li><a href="#">another business name</a></li>
</li></ul>

</div></body></html>


Any advice appreciated

Bazz