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 🤷♂️.
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