#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; open my $fh, '<', $ARGV[0] or die $!; my @lines = <$fh>; close $fh; my %data; for my $line (@lines) { my @fields; @fields = split /\s+/, $line; $data{$fields[1]}{$fields[0]} = $fields[2]; } for my $key (keys %data) { print "$key = $data{$key}\n"; for my $subkey (keys %{$data{$key}}) { print "\t$subkey = $data{$key}{$subkey}\n"; } } print Dumper(\%data);