$VAR1 = { 'ryan' => [ 'ipad', '2005', 'cell', '2009' ], 'Brian' => [ 'ipad', '2001', 'ipad', '2001', 'ipad', '2001' ], 'Andrew' => [ 'ipad', '2009' ] }; #### while (){ s/^\s+|\s+$//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}},"$col2\t$col3"; ++$hash{$name}{$col2}{$col3}; #HoH } else { # skip line } } close IN; foreach my $name (keys %hash){ print "$name\n"; foreach my $col2 (keys %{$hash{$name}}){ foreach my $col3 (keys %{$hash{$name}{$col2}}){ my $count = $hash{$name}{$col2}{$col3}; print "\t$col2\t$col3\t$count\n"; } } }