#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; #use IO::All; use Data::Dumper; my %result; for my $l () { my ($cod,$desc) = ($l =~/(\d*) (.*)/); my ($c1,$c2,$c3,$c4,$c5) = unpack ("A1 A1 A1 A1 A1",$cod); $result{$c1}{$c2}{$c3}{$c4}{$c5} .= $desc; } print Dumper \%result; __DATA__ 1 ITEM 11 Sub Item 1 111 Item X 112 Item 1121 Another Item 11212 And Another Item 12 Sub Item 2