#!perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; use warnings; my $Delimiter = chr(253); my %HostHash; my (@HostArray, @ProductArray); my $FIRST = 0; HOSTPARSE: while () { s/^\s+|\s+$//g; my @fields = split(/$Delimiter/, $_); my %fields; foreach my $field (@fields) { my $a1 = substr($field, 0, 3); my $a2 = substr($field, 3); $fields{$a1} = $a2 if $a2; } if ($fields{BNA}) { print "$fields{BNA} \n"; if ($FIRST) { print "Storing Products in Batch $HostHash{BNA}\n"; $HostHash{products} = \@ProductArray; @ProductArray = (); push @HostArray, \%HostHash; } else { $FIRST = 1; } %HostHash = %fields; next HOSTPARSE; } push @ProductArray, \%fields; } print "Storing Products in Batch $HostHash{BNA}\n"; $HostHash{products} = \@ProductArray; push @HostArray, \%HostHash; print Dumper @HostArray; __DATA__ BNAMedium Batch 1 DepartmentýBNO669ýSNO1ý CCOSPIAýDNO1ýPNO5001ýSAD0ýINO0ý CCOSPIAýDNO1ýPNO5004ýSAD0ýINO5004ý CCOSPIAýDNO1ýPNO5100ýSAD0ýINO5100ý BNAMedium Batch 2 DepartmentýBNO670ýSNO1ý CCOSPIAýDNO1ýPNO5001ýSAD0ýINO0ý CCOSPIAýDNO1ýPNO5004ýSAD0ýINO5004ý CCOSPIAýDNO1ýPNO5100ýSAD0ýINO5100ý