by reading the lines five at a time and pulling the user number out of the first one:
use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dump::Streamer; my %records; while (! eof (DATA)) { my $line1 = <DATA>; next unless defined $line1 and $line1 =~ /^\s1/; $_ = <DATA> for my ($line2, $line3, $line4, $line5); my $id = substr $line1, 9, 5; $records{$id} = [$line1, $line2, $line3, $line4, $line5]; } Dump (\%records); __DATA__ 10101ABC000019101L0001374686047S30339 GA &DOE C080229CR7 7 +00244 0000001 000000000 2 CR7 000 060714Q + Y 0000000000 000 3 00030339 3JO +HN DOE 36 423 MAIN STREET ATLANTA GA 30339 5 +000000000 +0080226I 052461 05241961 10101ABC000029102 N D +3658 MAIN STREET 2 ATLANTA GA3033 +9 0001 3JOHN DOE 05241961INDV37468604 +7S 4 5
Prints:
$HASH1 = { "00001" => [ " 10101ABC000019101L0001374686047S30339 GA +&DOE C080229CR7 7 00". "244 0000001 000000000\n", " 2 CR7 000 060 +714Q ". " Y 0000000000 000\n", " 3 00030339 + 3JOHN". " DOE 36\n", " 423 MAIN STREET ATLANTA GA 3 +0339\n", " 5 + +00000000000". "80226I 052461 05241961\n" ], "00002" => [ " 10101ABC000029102 N D + 36". "58 MAIN STREET\n", " 2 ATLANTA + GA30339 ". " 0001\n", " 3JOHN DOE + 05241961INDV374686047S". "\n", " 4\n", " 5\n" ] };
Note that I edited the second record to give it a unique id as described and that I restored what appeared to be a missing space in front of the first line of the first record.
In reply to Re: Hash Help
by GrandFather
in thread Hash Help
by mmittiga17
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