hi Monks , I am new to perl and working on this practice which is a littel challengin to me : my script generate the following input file : 
         INPUT1
        --------


LoCATION   10:00  10:30  11:00  11:30   12:00
PiZZA      SAM    MARY   LARRY  ED
           LUSI   RICK          SUE
                  DON
SEAFOOD    KIN    KHAN                  DANNY
                  MIKE    YOUND  TK     MONK

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which contains the location and who is working at what time on that location . I am trying to read it and print output like this : 
         output
        --------

PIZZA
-----
10:00  SAM LUSI
10:30  MARY RICK DON
11:00  LARRY
11:30  ED SUE
12:00


SEAFOOD
-------
10:00  KIM
10:30  KHAN MIKE
11:00  YOUNG
11:30  TK
12:00  DANNY MONK

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Any idea of the best way in doing this ? not sure weather arrays or hash is better? Thanks for advice and help

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