First, thank you so much for the response and assistance. Perlmonks never fails to amaze me!
Here's the code I finally come up with. Those who use Crystal reports will know of the limitations of data printing in rows and not columns.
#!/bin/perl

my @months=qw/"" jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec/; 
open(DATAS,"<","sales.txt") ; 
my (%report,$cust,$value,$date); 

for (@months) 
{ 
print "$_","\t"; 
} 
print "\n"; 
while (<DATAS>) 

{ chomp; 
if (/^[A-Z]/) { 
    $cust = $_; 
    @{$report{$cust}} = map { 0 } @months; 
    next; 
} 
($date,$value) = split ' ', $_; 
my ($mon,$year) = split '/',$date; 
$report{$cust}[$mon]=$value; 

}

foreach my $keys (keys %report) 
{
print $keys,"\t"; 
for (0..12) 
{ print $report{$keys}[$_],"\t"; 
} 
print "\n"; 
}  
print "\n";

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In reply to Re^3: Reformat RAW Excel Data by techjohnny
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