Greetings all, thanks for the reponses. What im trying to accomplish is this. i would like the file im working on which contains lines such as this
52,1427766557, bob
12,1427766556, bob
5,1427766555, bill
10,1427766554, joe
23,1427766553, bob

and turn into something like this where i can open it in excel and it would have a grid type of format where bob is the heading of the column, 12 is the value and 1427766557 is the time. 
                        bob         joe      bill

1427766557   52

1427766556   12

1427766555                               5

1427766554                   10

1427766553   23

@$_ = split /(?:,|\s)+/, $row;
$#$_!=2 ? next : push @{$data{$_->2}}, @$_1,0

with these 2 lines im splitting the row then assigning each part to an array and taking the 3rd part which is the name and setting it as the hash key and setting the other two elelents, time and value as the keys of the hash.

thanks,

In reply to Re^4: perl print to csv by bishop2001
in thread perl print to csv by bishop2001

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