I'll say straight up I struggle with hashes and this is proving especially so with this challenge.

My _DATA_ is shown below - it's the output from a system command and the columns are space seperated. Pseudo hash structure shown below as to how I believe I need the output stored in order for me to make sense of the data in my code. Which is to be able to read the status for each subsystem/daemon and also sort all daemons by their status.

But I cannot get me head around how to construct the required hash from my _DATA_ can anyone assist please? 

$VAR1 = {
          'inted' => {
                            'Group' => 'tcpip',
                            'PID' =>   '2424886',
                            'Status' => 'active'
                      }
      'xntpd' => {
                            'Group' => 'tcpip',
                            'PID' =>   '3473550',
                            'Status' => 'active'
                      }
       'rwhod' => {
                            'Group' => 'tcpip',
                            'PID' =>   '',
                            'Status' => 'inoperative'
                      }
        };


_DATA_
Subsystem         Group            PID          Status
 inetd            tcpip            2424886      active
 xntpd            tcpip            3473550      active
 rwhod            tcpip                         inoperative
 snmpd            tcpip                         inoperative
 aixmibd          tcpip                         inoperative
 hostmibd         tcpip                         inoperative
 snmpmibd         tcpip                         inoperative

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In reply to Hash creation problem by agentorange

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