I did this that almost exactly reproduces the output in your example, :
#!perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::CSV qw( csv ); my $magic_column = 3; #0-indexed my $aoa = csv( in => $ARGV[0] ); my %uniq = (); my $head = shift @$aoa; foreach my $line (@$aoa) { my $key = join( ',', @{$line}[ 0 .. $magic_column - 1 ] ); my $suffix = join( ',', @{$line}[ $magic_column + 1 .. $#$line ] ) +; $uniq{$key} //= [ [], $suffix ]; push @{ $uniq{$key}[0] }, $line->[$magic_column]; } print join( ',', @$head ), "\n"; foreach my $line ( sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } keys %uniq ) { my $magic = join( ',', sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } @{ $uniq{$line}[0] + } ); if ( @{ $uniq{$line}[0] } > 1 ) { $magic = '"' . $magic . '"'; } print $line, ',', $magic, ',', $uniq{$line}[1], "\n"; }
The two difrences are:
Your output includes the string MiJim(*) but the (*) doesn't appear anywhere in youur source data, and nothing in your question explains where it would come from.

Secondly, I don't know what order you reproduce the 'combined' column 3. It's not native or alphabetical order 🤷‍♂️.


In reply to Re: Building a dynamic array or some other method? by The_Dj
in thread Building a dynamic array or some other method? by CAdood

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