I was writing up a bit more, but then noticed the number of posts that appeared. So just three quick notes:

1. You have a CSV file, so rather than using substr with fixed-width columns, perhaps you should consider using Text::CSV. It will make you code more resilient and you'll spend less time thinking how to parse the file.
2. Given you want to organize by an arbitrary number of dates by zip code, it seems like you should use a hash of hashes keyed on ZIP (as others have suggested) - see perllol for operational details.
3. From the content of your files, it sounds like these are pulled from a database. Is there a reason you are using local files as an intermediary rather than DBI?

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In reply to Re: Creating One Table From Several Hashes by kennethk
in thread Creating One Table From Several Hashes by bryced1234

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