My apologies, as I think I may have misunderstood you about Order ID/Title. If you're looking to skip all orders that have the same Order ID and Title, you can use a similar construct as before except at the title-matching line:

if(/Title:(.+)/){
    next RECORD if $seen{$hash{orderID}}{$1};
    $seen{$hash{orderID}}{$1}++;
    $hash{title} = $1;
}

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The above builds a hash of hashes, like this:

$hash{OrderID}{title}

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This will effectively keep track whether an identical Order ID and title has been previously seen.

You can then restore the OrderID line to its former self:

$hash{orderID}        = $1 if !defined $hash{orderID} and /Order ID:(\
+S+)/;

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You mention in your comments that printing from a subroutine isn't a good idea.

I meant printing to the console. Yet, I didn't find anything about this being bad practice when searching for it, so I need to reevaluate my position on this. Nevertheless, writing to a spread sheet from within a subroutine is just fine (and this sounds inconsistent with printing not being fine, so I appreciate you asking me about it).

In reply to Re^13: How best to strip text from a file? by Kenosis
in thread How best to strip text from a file? by bobdabuilda

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