Please help me out if you can... I currently want to read in the following data file.

"PER"
"A1" "Denise Johnson" "red,orange,yellow" 09/25/2001
"PER"
"A2" "Desiree Smith" "yellow,blue-green" 03/06/1970
"EMP"
"A1" "X & Y Bank" "Teller" 05/17/1994 "Brian's Point" "WI" 54997 24000
+.00
"EMP"
"A2" "Acme Corp" "Computer Programmer" 07/24/1997 "Maxwell" "WI" 53224
+ 45000.00
"EOS"
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What I would like to be able to do is read in all of the PER info and EMP info where the first field (A1 or A2) are matching and then put them into a similar hash and thus come through with the following output.

---------------------
Entity       = A1
Name         = Denise Johnson
Color        = red
Color        = orange
Color        = yellow
Date         = 09/25/2001
----------------------
Entity       = A2
Name         = Desiree Smith
Color        = yellow
Color        = blue-green
Date         = 03/06/1970
------------------------
Entity       = A1
Employment   = X & Y Bank
Job Title    = Teller
Date of Hire = 05/17/1994
Location     = Brian's Point, WI 54997
Salary       = 24000.00
------------------------
Entity       = A2
Employment   = Acme Corp
Job Title    = Computer Programmer
Date of Hire = 07/24/1997
Location     = Maxwell, WI 53224
Salary       = 45000.00
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Here is my code so far, but it is not giving me the correct result (actually it is giving me NO RESULT). Please help me if you can, but do not laugh to hard at me, please....

#!/usr/bin/perl-Tw
use strict;

use Text::ParseWords;
open(DATA,"basicdez.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n";
my @data;
my $i = 0;
my $new_record = 0;

while (<DATA>)
{
  chomp;
  last if /^"EOS"$/;

  {
  @data = &quotewords('\s+', 0, $_);
  }
  if ((/^PER\s*$/) && ($data[0]) && ($data[1]) && ($data[2]) && ($data
+[3]))
     {
      my @colors=split(/,/, $data[2]);
      
      print "---------------------\n";
      print "Entity     = $data[0]\n";
      print "Name       = $data[1]\n";
      for (@colors){
         # print each color
     print "Color       = $_\n";
     print "Date        = $data[3]\n";
     }
  if ((/^EMP\s*$/) && ($data[0]) && ($data[1]) && ($data[2]) && ($data
+[3]) && ($data[4]) && ($data[5]) && ($data[6]) && ($data[7]))
     {
     print "------------------------\n";
     print "Entity      = $data[0]\n";
     print "Employment  = $data[1]\n";
     print "Job Title   = $data[2]\n";
     print "Hire Date   = $data[3]\n";
     print "Location    = $data[4], $data[5] $data[6]\n";
     print "Salary      = $data[7]\n";
     }
  }
}
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I do need to use the PER and EMP as seperators to sort out the data, so if you could tell me a way to put this information together without to much stress that would be great. Anything you could do to help out would be awesome at this point. peace, LOVE and ((hugs)) as always dez L

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