Try to avoid repeating code. It's a bad coding habit in general. Bad for Debugging, Modularity and Maintainability. Hashes are nice, if you get the hang of it. 
my %hash;
while( <DATA> ){
  chomp;
  @vars = map { s/^\s+$// } split /,/;
  $hash{ $vars[2] } = [ @vars[ qw/0 1 3/ ] ] if $vars[0];
}

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The code is more dense, but therefore more fun. Look at perldata, map, perlop and perlref for docs.

Hope this helps,

Jeroen
"We are not alone"(FZ)
Update: mr.nick /msg'ed me a warning: What if $vars[0] equals a '0'? You still want it to be valid? add <code> or $vars =~ m/0/<code> to the if statement.

In reply to Re: Hash Variable by jeroenes
in thread Hash Variable by qball

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