In that case you need to be smarter about recognizing records. There seems to be a line number associated with each line of a record so you can notice when the line number resets:
use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dump::Streamer; my %records; my @lines; while (! eof (DATA) or @lines) { my $line = <DATA>; $line ||= ''; # Avoid a bunch of defined tests chomp $line; next unless $line =~ /^([\s\d]\d)/ or @lines; if (! defined $1 or $1 <= @lines) { # Start of new record (or last record) - save previous my $id = substr $lines[0], 9, 5; $records{$id} = [@lines]; @lines = (); } push @lines, $line if length $line; } 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 6Additional line 1 7and another additional line 10101ABC000029102 N D +3658 MAIN STREET 2 ATLANTA GA3033 +9 0001 3JOHN DOE 05241961INDV37468604 +7S 4 5
In reply to Re^3: Hash Help
by GrandFather
in thread Hash Help
by mmittiga17
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