#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my %Data = ( 04 => 'BQADAQMB (part 2 of 3 of message reference 1)', 05 => 'BQADAQMC (part 1 of 3 of message reference 1)', 06 => 'BQADAQMD (part 3 of 3 of message reference 1)', 16 => 'BggEAAIDAQ== (part 4 of 3 of message reference 2)', 17 => 'BggEAAIDAg== (part 2 of 3 of message reference 2)', 18 => 'BggEAAIDAw== (part 3 of 3 of message reference 2)', ); my %table; foreach my $key (sort keys %Data) { my $lValue = $Data{$key}; my @array = split ' ', $lValue; my $lPartStart = $array[2]; my $lPartEnd = $array[4]; my $lReference = $array[8]; chop($lReference); $table{$lReference} = [] unless exists $table{$lReference}; push @{$table{$lReference}}, $lPartStart; } foreach my $lReference (sort keys %table) { print "Ref: $lReference, parts: "; my @parts = @{$table{$lReference}}; print join ', ', sort @parts; print "\n"; }