Hello all. I am a neophite user of Perl and I am looking to write a quick little app to parse out a simple tab seperated file that was exported from excel. It looks somthing like this:

 

NAME   EMAIL OFFICE 
Ben Wang     wang@mycorp.com     Boston
Warren Smith     wsmith@mycorp.com     Boston, New_York
Emma Sun     esun@mycorp.com      Shenzhen, Hong_Kong
Xiao Long       long@mycorp.com      Shenzhen
George Stephenson       stephenson@mycorp.com       London, New_York
ect...

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I would like to parse up this file so It cane return the names and emails of everyone listed with a particular office. These will be used to write office specific emails. I think I should use an hash to do this and use the OFFICES as the keys. So far I have used this to load the data from :

 open (EMPLOYEES, "employees.txt");
while ($record =<EMPLOYEES>){
## I need to know how to pass it into a hash or array here.##

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After that it is just a matter of I/O and some looping arguements to for the searching. Thank you for any help you can give me, this has been chewing me red for the last few hours.

-UH

In reply to Parsing a 3-Column Tab-Deliminated File by UrbanHick

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