in reply to Re^2: segmentation and grouping
in thread segmentation and grouping

May be I'm misunderstanding you, but is this what you want?:

#! perl -slw use strict; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; my %categs; push @{ $categs{ $_->[2] } }, $_->[1] while @{ $_ = [ split ' ', <DATA +> ] }; pp \%categs; __DATA__ 31 John Consultation Charges 100 4/1/2012 10:39 805 Kennedy Consultation Charges 150 4/1/2012 11:17 805 Kennedy C-Reactive Protein 170 4/1/2012 11:56 805 Kennedy Complete Blood Count 150 4/1/2012 11:56 805 Kennedy Malarial 175 4/1/2012 11:56 805 Kennedy Mantoux Test 100 4/1/2012 11:56 805 Kennedy AZIBACT 1 MG SYP 28 4/1/2012 13:27 805 Kennedy FALCINILLE DRY SYP 105.15 4/1/2012 13:27 891 Ruth Consultation Charges 150 4/1/2012 12:05 891 Ruth C-Reactive Protein 170 4/1/2012 12:47 891 Ruth Complete Blood Count 150 4/1/2012 12:47 891 Ruth Mantoux Test 100 4/1/2012 12:47 891 Ruth X-Ray Chest 150 4/1/2012 12:47

Producing:

C:\test>junk59 { AZIBACT => ["Kennedy"], "C-Reactive" => ["Kennedy", "Ruth"], Complete => ["Kennedy", "Ruth"], Consultation => ["John", "Kennedy", "Ruth"], FALCINILLE => ["Kennedy"], Malarial => ["Kennedy"], Mantoux => ["Kennedy", "Ruth"], "X-Ray" => ["Ruth"], }

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