maybe

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/; local $/ = ""; # $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR to +split paragraphs ° my %res; # result-set while (my $block = <DATA>) { # DATA as file-handle my (%f_num, $prefix); for my $line ( split /\n/, $block ) { my ($k,$v) = split /\s+/, $line; # key=value $f_num{$k} = $v # collect F<num> if $k =~ /^F\d+$/; $prefix = $k # catch <solvent...> = 0 if $k =~ /^solvent/ and $v == 0; # * } $res{"${prefix}_$_"} = $f_num{$_} # copy with prefix for keys %f_num; } pp \%res; # display __DATA__ F001 1.2 F101 3.2 solvent1 0 solvent2 3 F001 2.2 F101 7.2 solvent1 5 solvent2 0

{ solvent1_F001 => 1.2, solvent1_F101 => 3.2, solvent2_F001 => 2.2, solvent2_F101 => 7.2, }

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

update

*) added $k =~ /^solvent/ and to make it more fault tolerant.

an if-elsif-else chain would be even better to catch errors with unexpected data

°) changed from "\n\n" to match longer gaps too

update

Added comments. If you need further explanation, feel free to ask


In reply to Re: Help with parsing a file (updated) by LanX
in thread Help with parsing a file by Odar

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