The point of all that ugly code below is to tell you that if you want custom views on your data, you need to make them. Use subroutines that return data or print data like the ones below. It's also there because I think that's a good data structure for you to use. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|++;

use constant TITLES => 1;

my $data = {};

while ( <DATA> ) {
  my $row = [ split /,/ ];
  push @{$data->{$row->[0]}}, $row;
}

sub totals_report {
  my $data = shift;
  print "Totals Report:\n" if TITLES;
  foreach ( sort keys %{$data} ) {
    print $_ . ":\t" . @{$data->{$_}} . "\n";
  }
}

sub print_col {
  my $data = shift;
  my $col  = shift || 0;
  print 'Column ' . $col . " print out:\n" if TITLES;
  foreach my $type ( sort keys %{$data} ) {
    print $type . ":\n" if TITLES;
    foreach my $row ( @{$data->{$type}} ) {
      print "\t" . ( $row->[$col] || '[none]' ) . "\n";
    }
  }
}

totals_report( $data );

print "\n\n";

print_col( $data, 3 );

__DATA__
HDR,831 Reconciliation,200008081441EST
BGN,11,000000158,20000808,10520000
OTI,GH,BT,WEDI620000802,159
AMT,2,231644
AMT,BT,231644
AMT,NP,0
QTY,46,10
QTY,53,0
QTY,54,10
QTY,55,0
TED,ZZZ,BATCH AWAITING 831
OTI,TR,CK,0021000095,159,000101416
TED,ZZZ,MOD CHECK ON RDFI-ID FAILED

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Enjoy 
--
Casey

In reply to Re: Creating the right type of array... by cwest
in thread Creating the right type of array... by Anonymous Monk

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