Well, here's one way to do it. 
while (<DATA>) {
  chomp;
  my @line = split /,\s*/;
  my $key = shift @line;
  push @{$data{$key}}, \@line;
}
print $data{"Andrea"}[0][1], " should be good\n"; # offsets off by one
print $data{"Dave"}[0][1], " should be better\n";
print $data{"Joe"}[0][1], " should be 0\n";
__END__
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

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In reply to Re: Making an array out of each line of a text file by merlyn
in thread Making an array out of each line of a text file by Anonymous Monk

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