#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $infile = 'test_file.txt'; open (IN,'<',$infile) || die ("Could not open $infile : $!"); my $name; my %hash = (); while (){ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; # trim leading/trailing spaces my ($col1,$col2,$col3) = split /\s+/,$_,4; if ($col1 eq 'name'){ $name = $col2; } elsif ($col1 eq 'device') { push @{$hash{$name}},$col2,$col3; } else { # skip line } ## ## } close IN; #print Dumper \%hash; foreach my $line (keys %hash) { print "$line\n"; foreach my $sit (keys %{$hash{$line}}) { print "$hash{$line}{$sit}\t$sit"; } }