It looks to me like your problem is to first collect/organise the data you want, then to print it out. I recommend storing your lines in a hash, keyed off the last field on the line. I'll use a hash-of-lists-of-lists:
my %data = (); # get the data while (<TEMP>) { my @fields = split; # get fields my $key = pop @fields; # remove rightmost my $line = [@fields]; # $line is ref to list of fields push @{$data{$key}}, $line; # add to list of lines, in hash } close TEMP; #now print it: foreach my $key (sort keys %data); { print "$key\n"; my @lines = @{$data{$key}}; # list of lines, from hash foreach my $line (@lines); { my @fields = @$line; # list of fields, from array-ref my $text = join(" ", @fields); print "$text\n"; } print "\n"; }
Let me know if you can't follow the data-structure stuff. I've tried not to use any shortcuts, but I know it can be confusing at first. --Dave;

In reply to Re: Working With Arrays and Files by dpuu
in thread Working With Arrays and Files by kevinw

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