Hi Ken, thank you and sorry I should have included the headers of the INPUT file

ACCOUNT,DATE,NOTE
H123456,20151209,THIS IS A TEST

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All my accounts begin with an alphanumeric which is the reason the H is present, on my other scripts I have I usually use a my $find to simplify my search for the account, example below.

my $find = '^(H0|HT)'

One question I do have is I normally write my scripts to export to a new file in this case what would be the correct format to do so? I have this but I think I am missing something

use strict;
use warnings;

my %reformat;
my $re = qr{^(H\d+,\d+,)(.*)$};


    open (NEW, ">", "Notes_Test_OUTPUT.txt" ) or die "could not open:$
+!";
    open (FILE, "<", "Notes_Test.txt") or die "could not open:$!";

    while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;
        /$re/;
        push @{ $reformat{$1} }, $2; 
}

    print NEW if $_, join ' ', @{ $reformat{$_} } for keys %reformat;

close (FILE);
close (NEW);

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In reply to Re^2: Match Line And Combine Into One Line by jlope043
in thread Match Line And Combine Into One Line by jlope043

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