Something like this?
use strict; use warnings; chomp(my @title = split /\s+/, <DATA>); my %emp; while (<DATA>) { chomp(my @r = split/\s+/); push @{$emp{$r[0]}}, [ @r[1..$#r] ]; } foreach (reverse sort keys %emp) { print "$_"; foreach (@{$emp{$_}}) { print "\t$_->[0]\t$_->[1]\n"; } } __DATA__ EmpNum LOCATION Shift 23 54 1 11 65 3 23 54 2
And the output -
23 54 1 54 2 11 65 3

Updated: solution 2
use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; chomp(my @title = split /\s+/, <DATA>); chomp(my @data = <DATA>); my @sorted_data = map { $_->[1] } sort { $b->[0] <=> $a->[0] } map { [/^(\d+)/, $_] } @data; my $last_emp = ''; foreach my $d (@sorted_data) { $d =~ s/^$last_emp\b/' ' x length($last_emp)/e; $d =~ /^(\d+)/ and $last_emp = $1; print "$d\n"; } __DATA__ EmpNum LOCATION Shift 23 54 1 11 65 3 23 54 2


In reply to Re: complex input file by Roger
in thread complex input file by Anonymous Monk

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