Thank you for all of the great feedback. It will help in my understanding of Perl to see how the Monks work through problems.

The example code I provided worked for me. It allowed me to parse data from a text file using arrays, but I am trying to do this on a larger scale with a new file with hashes.

Ultimately, I am trying to learn how to create a hash to sort data by a specific column from a text file. I would also like to learn how to parse data from a text file using hashes.

I don't know how to reference all columns from a text file using hashes and then isolate one specific column to sort or parse. This is one of many knowledge gaps for me.

There is nothing in the books or posts I have read which shows me how to do this. It seems to be a pretty basic, but I just can't find this information.

I am just getting started with Perl, so I will go back to the books and come back with more well-organized questions in the future.

Thank you for your time and all of your responses.

In reply to Re^2: Reading Text File into Hash to Parse and Sort by Perl_Derek
in thread Reading Text File into Hash to Parse and Sort by Perl_Derek

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