Here is how I would write this (untested): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# parse the user list dump from nlist into 1 tsv file

my @user_list;
open (NLIST, $ARGV[0]) or die "Can't open nlist results\n $!";
while (<NLIST>) {
   # do not parse for the exceptions, all else do the following:
   unless (/^[Object|Current|A total]/) {
      # user | given | last name?
      if (/^User\: (\w+)\n/) {
         push @user_list, { username => lc($1), lastname => "", givenn
+ame => ""};
      } elsif (/^\tLast Name: (\w+)\n/) {
         $user_list[-1]->{lastname} = lc $1;
      } elsif (/^\tGiven Name: (.)+\n/) {
         $user_list[-1]->{givenname} = $1;
      }
   }
}
close NLIST;

for my $user (@user_list) {
   print "User: $user->{username}\n";
   print "\tLast: $user->{lastname}\n";
   print "\tGiven: $user->{givenname}\n";
}

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-Mark

In reply to Re: Dereferencing Array of Hashes by kvale
in thread Dereferencing Array of Hashes by mxn_mark

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