That works great. I will need to stare at that for a while to process it all though.

Any suggestions on a way to parse through the data line by line (of the DATA rows) by calling it by the item name? Something like below, although this obviously doesn't work with the current hash, this is what I envisioned but am unsure of how to accomplish it: 
foreach my $data (@datalineshasharraything) {
     print "Item1 is ", $data{'ItemName1'};
     print "Item2 is ", $data{'ItemName2'};
}

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Not sure if that is doable, as it is beyond my scope of Perl understanding. Any suggestions? Thanks


Michael Jensen

In reply to Re^2: Complicated Hash with array by inblosam
in thread Complicated Hash with array by inblosam

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