#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $acct; my %data = (); my $infile = 'Facs_Data.txt'; open my $fh,'<',$infile or die "Could not open '$infile' : $!"; while (<$fh>){ next unless /\S/; # skip blank lines if (/Acct:(\d+)/){ $acct = $1; } push @{$data{$acct}},$_ if ($acct); } close $fh; for my $acct (keys %data){ my $outfile = $acct.'_2017.txt'; print "Creating $outfile\n"; open my $fh,'>',$outfile or die "Could not open '$outfile' : $!"; for (@{$data{$acct}}){ print $fh $_; } close $fh; }