I don't quite get what you want, I do especially not know where you get that default-id of 0x10009 from, but this might (or might not) get you started:
#!perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @fields = qw/attr-name mtype attr-id default-id/; chomp(my @data = <DATA>); my (@parsed_data, %temp_hash, %data_hash); while (@data >= @fields) { @temp_hash{@fields} = splice @data, 0, @fields; push @parsed_data, { %temp_hash }; } for (@parsed_data) { if ($_->{mtype}) { $data_hash{$_->{'mtype'}} = { VALUE => $_->{'attr-id'}, TYPE => 'attr-id' }; } else { $data_hash{$_->{'default-id'}} = { VALUE => $_->{'attr-name'}, TYPE => 'attr-name' }; } } print Dumper \%data_hash; __DATA__ model_name 0x234567 0x654321 0x654321 security_string 0x123456

Hope this helped.
CombatSquirrel.
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