I'm new to PERL (i started reading my first tutorial yesterday afternoon :)), and this is what i'd like to do (i've been looking everywhere for similar examples but cant quite find it)

I'd like to take a comma de-limited text file and make each line in the text file it's own array with the first item in each array the name of the array (at least thats how I think it should be done). However the first item in the line isn't always unique and the same number of items aren't in every line (some line may have 3, others 6). The good thing is that there are only 6 possible things the first item in each line could be. 
ex.

Andrea, 6, good, nice, 3
Bill, 5, 4, better, 5, 7, 4
Clark, 4, 5
Dave, best, better, best
Joe, 5, 0
Joe, 4, 6
William, 6, 7, 8, 3 , 1 ,5
Andrea, 45, bettr, best, 6

where the result I would like is a matrice ex.

Andrea(1, 2)=good
Dave(1,2) = better
Joe(1,2) = 0

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where the first subscript is the nth number of the same thing and the second is the item number in the array. Can you help me in figuring out how to do this/give me suggestions. THanks!!!

BTW, I hope i'm not asking for too much :)

In reply to Making an array out of each line of a text file by Anonymous Monk

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