#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use POSIX 'strftime'; my @now = localtime(); my $todaysday = strftime("%d", localtime()); my $mth = strftime("%m" , localtime()); my $secs = strftime("%S" , localtime()); my $mins = strftime("%M" , localtime()); my $hr = strftime("%H" , localtime()); my $year = strftime("%Y" , localtime()); my $dtime = "$year-$mth-$todaysday $hr:$mins"; my %most_recent; my $header = ; while ( my $line = ) { chomp $line; my ($col1,$date_and_time,$col2,$col3,$col4) = split( /,/, $line ); $date_and_time =~ s/^\s+$//g; my $dtime = $date_and_time; if ( not defined $most_recent{$col1}{$col2} or $most_recent{$col1}{$col2} lt $dtime ) { $most_recent{$col1}{$col2} = $dtime; } } print "Most recent:\n"; foreach my $col1 ( keys %most_recent ) { foreach my $col2 ( keys %{$most_recent{$col1}} ) { print "$col1, $col2, $most_recent{$col1}{$col2}, \n"; #print "$col2,$col1,$col3,$col4,\n"; } } __DATA__ LONDO,2015-01-02 11:35,GE04_TDP,ted,fu LONDO,2015-01-02 13:15,GE03_TDP,ted,fu LONDO,2015-01-02 15:42,GE03_TDP,ted,fu LONDO,2015-01-02 15:22,GE04_TDP,ome,ful LONDO,2015-01-02 17:15,GE03_TDP,omp,ful LONDO,2015-01-02 17:32,GE04_TDP,omp,ful LONDO,2015-01-02 20:44,CW02,et,ful LONDO,2015-01-02 19:26,CW03,et,ful LONDO,2015-01-02 20:25,CW01,let,pped LONDO,2015-01-02 19:57,CW04,let,pped LONDO,2015-01-02 19:24,EXCHP,let,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 19:25,EXCHP,let,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 19:43,GE03,let,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 20:41,GE04,Co,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 21:33,GE03_TDP,Co,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 21:17,EXCHP,Co,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 23:24,EXCHDP,Co,ucc LONDO,2015-01-02 23:27,EXCHDP,Co,ucc LONDO,2015-01-03 01:20,EXCHDP,il,02 LONDO,2015-01-03 01:11,EXCHDP,ro