use strict; use warnings; use List::MoreUtils qw(uniq); my $char_at=10; my $num_chars=50; my $val; my @trnAccounts; #open my $fh, $ARGV[0] #open my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $ARGV[0] open my $fh, '<:encoding(cp1252)', $ARGV[0] or die "Could not open '$ARGV[0]' $!"; while (my $line = <$fh>) { $val = substr($line, 0, 1); chomp $val; if ($val eq 'H' or $val eq 'T') { my $output = $line; }else { chomp $line; next unless $line && length($line) >= $char_at; push @trnAccounts, substr($line, $char_at, $num_chars); } } my @unique_accounts = uniq(@trnAccounts); print "\n"; for my $i (0..$#unique_accounts) { print $i, ":", $unique_accounts[$i], "\n"; } print "============\n"; print "Total Records Processed: ", scalar(@trnAccounts), "\n"; print "Total Unique Values Found : ", scalar(@unique_accounts), "\n";