Ok, I got myself to this point and am trying to read up on hash or arrays but. I cant figure out how to access each line I need to access as I was in my code sample. 
This prints out what I want via Dumper:

my $data = "GCUS.GCUS";my %userData;open(inData, $data);while (<inData
+>) {    chomp;
    $line = $_;
    if ($line =~/^GC/){
       my $ACTNUM =  substr $line, 11, 9 ;
       my $ref =  substr $line, 0, 3 ;
       push @{ $userData{$ACTNUM} }, $ref = $line;


    }
}

Here is where I get stuck and cant seem to understand the perl doc:

for  $ACTNUM (sort keys %userData) {
#########GCA##############
 my  $line = $userData{$ACTNUM}{GCA};
  $ACCTNUM = substr $line, 11, 9;
  $FIRM_ID = substr $line, 660, 1;
  $CURR = substr $line, 661, 3;

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In reply to Re^2: Please help with Hash Key,value issue by mmittiga17
in thread Please help with Hash Key,value issue by mmittiga17

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