use strict; use warnings; # Read all input into data structure my %cars; my $i = 0; # unique tag for hash keys while (<>) { chomp; my ($make, $model, $rest) = split /,/, $_, 3; $cars{$make}{$model}{"$rest,$i"}++; $i++; } # Create each directory once # Open/close each file once my $out_dir = "/var/tmp/cars"; #Output directory for for my $make (keys %cars) { my $dir = "$out_dir/$make"; system "mkdir -p $dir"; for my $model (keys %{ $cars{$make} }) { open my $fh, '>', "$out_dir/$make/$model" or die $!; for my $rest (keys %{ $cars{$make}{$model} }) { my @specs = split /,/, $rest, 2; print $fh (join ',', ($make, $model, @specs)), "\n"; } close $fh; } }