#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %servers_HoA; my %servers_HoH; while () { # read each line in turn to $_ next unless /^\w/i; my ($machine, $default, $type, $connect)=split(/,/,$_); print "$machine, $default, $type, $connect"; $servers_HoA{$machine}=[$default, $type, $connect]; # or perhaps $servers_HoH{$machine}{default} = $default; $servers_HoH{$machine}{type} = $type; $servers_HoH{$machine}{connect} = $connect; } print "Hash of Arrays\n"; print Dumper(\%servers_HoA); print "\nHash of Hashes\n"; print Dumper(\%servers_HoH); __DATA__ printserver1,default,cups,cups printserver2,no,aix,rsh