Well I'm actually pulling the data from a database and saved it in the format given in the question then display it on the web, the formatting changed to just MSC_name,count_per_date1...end_date(e.g. 30-JUL-03) for example:

MSC_name,count_per_date1...end_date30(e.g. 30-JUL-03)
MSCBCR1,168,...,170
MSCBCR2,178,...189
Total_cf_produced,346,..,359

The code I'm currently testing is: 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl

open (INFILE,"c:/playgnd/sql_result_cf.txt") || die("Could not open fi
+le!");

while( <INFILE> ) {
 next if $. == 1; # skip first line
 chomp;
 my %F;
 @F{qw(msc_name chunum date count_per_date)} = split /\s*,\s*/;
 $Data{$F{date}} = { }
        unless exists $Data{$F{msc_name}};
 $Data{$F{date}}->{$F{msc_name}} = [('')x31]
        unless ref( $Data{$F{date}}->{$F{msc_name}});
 ${$Data{$F{date}}->{$F{msc_name}}}[$F{chunum}] = $F{count_per_date};
 }

foreach my $date (keys %Data) {
 foreach my $msc_name (keys %{$Data{$date}}) {
     print join(",",$msc_name,$date, @{$Data{$date}->{$msc_name}}), "\
+n" ;
     }
 }
close(INFILE);

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Thanks.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Formating Text file by Anonymous Monk
in thread Formating Text file by redskie007

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