Hi thanos1983,The code which was shared by you absolutely brilliant piece of code and helped me a lot but what if there is a bit change in the text file mentioned below input file.I have tried but i am getting the output as {''=>[],Apple =>[A,40,45,50,54]} with first line empty and actual data is starting after the comma seperation & A in displaying in an array actually it has to dispay as {Apple-A =>[40,45,50,54]} .Any help is appreciated

Below is the code used to achieve the output

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::All;
use Data::Dumper;
my @elements =();
my @lines = io('test_scores.txt')->chomp->slurp;
splice @lines, 0, 1; # remove first line

my %hash;

foreach my $line (@lines) {
    $line =~ s/^\s+//;
    my @elements = split /\s+/, $line;
    $hash{splice @elements, 0, 1} = \@elements;    
}
print Dumper \%hash;
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below is the Input file

fruit    Jan feb mar apr
Apple A  40  45  50  54
orange O 12  25  24  29
Pineapple P 10 20 30 40
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output should be as below

{Apple-A =>[40,45,50,54]}

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