The Following code creates a hash with first column(Person*) as outer key and other values as inner hash, now you can easily go over the outer key and match the Person and get the values.

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %temp=(); my %main_struc=(); my $match='Person2'; while (my $line = <DATA>) { chomp $line; my @fields = split ("," , $line,2); my @temp=split(',',$fields[1]); foreach my $data (@temp){ my($key,$value)=split('=',$data); $key =~ s/^\s+//; $key =~ s/\s+$//; $main_struc{$fields[0]}{$key}=$value } } print Dumper \%main_struc; print "@{$main_struc{$match}}{'Name','Age','Gender'}"

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In reply to Re: Comparing an array with a regex array of strings? by vinoth.ree
in thread Comparing an array with a regex array of strings? by Ppeoc

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