I have a csv file that among other data, for this particular problem, contain these fields: 1) employee_name, 2) employee_group, 3) manager_name . For some of the employee_name entries, the group entries are empty (null). So, since the managers are also listed as employees in this file, I would like to be able to do a look up on their entries to copy their group information into the null entries of their corresponding employees, and I don't know how to code this. I'm thinking the pseudo-code might be something like: 

if $element->[employee_group] = ""
then (go to $element->[manager_name]
copy $element->[manager's_group] to $element->[employee_group]);

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So, this is an idea of what it might look like. 

Sam Malone,Cheers,Rebecca Howe
Woody Boyd,,Rebecca Howe
Rebecca Howe,Cheers,Rebecca's Manager

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You can see that Woody's group info is missing - null. So I'd like the code to go to Woody's manager, Rebecca Howe, and copy her group info to Woody's missing group field to make the file as such: 

Sam Malone,Cheers,Rebecca Howe
Woody Boyd,Cheers,Rebecca Howe
Rebecca Howe,Cheers,Rebecca's Manager

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Thanks, Gurus!

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