What have you tried? How hasn't it worked? Please see How do I post a question effectively?. In particular, given that you are trying to read input from a file, it is important that we can see how the file is formatted. This can be accomplished by wrapping the input file contents in <code> tags. The same should be done for your expected output.

The simplest file data structure that matches your spec as I understand it is a hash of arrays. See perllol for some background on these structures. The following code demonstrates some of the fundamentals required to process input in the way you've described: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $input = <DATA>;
my @data = split /\s+/, $input;

my $last_display;
my %results;
for my $datum (@data) {
    my ($key, $value) = split /=/, $datum, 2;

    if ($key eq 'displaynum') {
        $last_display = $value;
    }

    if ($key eq 'value') {
        push @{$results{$last_display}}, $value;
    }
}

print Dumper \%results;

for my $key (keys %results) {
    print join "\t", $key, @{$results{$key}}, "\n";
}



__DATA__
displaynum=00 value=Some0 displaynum=01 value=Some1 displaynum=02 valu
+e=Some2 value=Some3


__END__
$VAR1 = {
          '01' => [
                    'Some1'
                  ],
          '00' => [
                    'Some0'
                  ],
          '02' => [
                    'Some2',
                    'Some3'
                  ]
        };
01    Some1    
00    Some0    
02    Some2    Some3

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If this does not provide a clear road map for how to proceed, please post some code and well-formatted input and expected output and we'll see what we can do.

In reply to Re: Processing text file by kennethk
in thread Processing text file by sanmonkey

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