The (*) notation was going to be a quick and dirty reference to a non-inherited permission for a file. I didn't mention it in the initial posting, but mentioned it in the posting where I show it between the CSV in and CSV out samples.

The columns show:
File Server,Access Path,Current Permissions,Logon Name,Inherited From Folders,Flags,User/Group,Classification Results,Classification Results by Category (Including Nested),Total Hit Count

In the sample input CSV, there are a few unique files shown(column 2), and column 3 shows what permissions each user or group has to that file. So those get minimized to show 1 line per file, and it's column 4 where I start packing all the users and groups together that all have the same permissions seen in column 3.

There's no order to the combine list of users/groups. As I'm parsing the file (sorted by server and filename and permissions), I intend to look at whether those are all the same, and if there's a user already associated with that permission for that file, I append the current line's user onto the list of users that are already having the same permissions. So it's just "whatever comes next" for the list of users.

I'm sorry I didn't that more clear.

I'm going to pore over what people have submitted because I have a lot to learn from those techniques. I do want to thank everyone who has provided sample code! I had training all day today, and will have another day tomorrow, and I'll look more closely at it.

I saw someone used map above, and I failed in using it, and couldn't figure out why it failed, so I want to look over how it's being used there. I could only use it on @ARGV for some reason, and not other arrays. (I had a comment in my code that mentioned the failure)

Thank you again! I'll be sure to ask some questions if I can't figure out how some of the code functionality works.