How should I go about formatting the output as:

Boss - Firstname Surname
Secretary - Name Surname, Mr Jones Smith
Medical Doctor - Bob Middlename Hope
Position 1 - Asdf Ghjk  - Name Lastname, First Last 
Position 1 - Sally Mally  - Joe Smoe, The Who, Will Timberland 
Position 2 - Paula Simon  - Raymonde Maalouf

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To those who cannot pick up the subtleness, I need the position always displayed (so I can loop through each row and insert into the database). I was thinking of inserting each new position into an array, then if there is no current position, use $array[-1]; Would this work?

I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

chomp; # nom nom nom

In reply to Re^2: Will a substitution in an if/else control structure default to $_? by Lawliet
in thread Will a substitution in an if/else control structure default to $_? by Lawliet

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