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in reply to convert array of hash into formatted one

Looks like you need a sort function or block and to keep the previous (sorted) case in an up-scope variable, e.g.
my $prevCase = ''; for my $i (sort caseThenId (0..$#$var1) { my $case = $var1->[$i]{case}; print "$case:"\n" if $case ne $prevCase; $prevCase = $case; print $var1->[$i]{id} . ") " . $var1->[$i]{name} . ", " . $var1->[$i]{degree} . "\n"; } sub caseThenId { $var1->[$a]{case} cmp $var1->[$b]{case} or $var1->[$a]{id} cmp $var1->[$b]{id}; }
Update: $var1 should be a reference to your array in the above example.

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