my $account_hash = $accounts->{78}; foreach my $transactions ($account_hash){ push @{ $account_hash{ transactions } }, '-42.37'; } print Dumper $account_hash{ transactions }; #### A,01,Newton,Issac,Physics, 5.6 B,144.56 B,1034.65 B,12.23 A,34,Einstein,Albert,Physics,12.22 B,2346.89 B,876.23 B,7656.81 B,745.21 B,25.63 B,89.56 B,7789.23 #### %accounts = ( ’78’ => { ’surname’ => ’Feynman’, ’firstname’ => ’Richard’, ’job’ => ’Physics’, ’balance’ => -17.34, ’transactions => [ 7412.36, 2589.35, 95.32, 12.85, 789.68 ], }, ’89’ => { ’surname’ => ’Merx’, ... }, #### use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Fatal qw/ open close / ; my $data = "accounts.txt"; open (DAT, $data) or die "\"$data\" not existed or can't be opened!\n"; my @accounts; my @transactionamount; my @fields1 = ( 'Type', 'member number', 'Surname', 'Firstname', 'Job', 'Balance', ); my @fields2 = qw/Type TransactionAmount/; my $fields1; my $fields2; my $values; while () { chomp; my @values = split(/,/); my %entry = map { $fields1[$_] => $values[$_] } ( 0..$#fields1 ); #print Dumper %entry; if ($entry{"Type"} eq 'B'){ my %transactionamount = map { $fields2[$_] => $values[$_] } ( 0..$#fields2 ); push @transactionamount, \%transactionamount; } else { push @accounts, \%entry; } } print Dumper @transactionamount;