my @Divisions = qw(ABER BERF CECC DADD); my @rows; my %AG; my $Rec= {}; my %positions; my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1},encoding => "utf-8"); #CSV file with comma delimited data open my $fh1, "<", "test.csv" or die "test.csv: $!"; while (my $row = $csv->getline ($fh1)) { # do something with @$row if ($row->[12]) { push @rows, $row; } else { push @rows, $row; } } close $fh1 or die "data.csv: $!"; foreach my $rec (@rows) { foreach my $dept (@Divisions) { if ($rec->[14] =~ /^$dept/ && $rec->[15] =~ /^A\W[1-5]|B\W[1-2]/) { my $Rec = { SECTION=>$rec->[0], GRADE=>strip_hyphen($rec->[1]), POSITION=>$rec->[2], NAME=>invert_name($rec->[3]), AGE =>convert_date($rec->[4]), GENDER=>$rec->[5], }; push @{$AG{$rec->[10]}},$Rec; } } } foreach my $A (sort keys %AG) { foreach my $p (@{$AG{$A}}) { print $p->{'GRADE'}," ", $p->{'NAME'}," ",$p->{'POSITION'},$p->{'AGE'}," ",$p->{'GENDER'}, "\n"; } }