I am using the perl Text::csv perl module and IO::Scalar module to get csv data the data is as follows: id ,name,sal,post,income,country ,address..$#number_of_columns 21,hhdh,23,lawyer,0,US,GA,XYZ...$#number_of_rows 22,shjhds,24,perl programmer,999999999999,US,TX,XYZ..$#number_of_rows """""..... "...... i cannot find how i can create a hash record so that i can do a search on "ANY" key from the id col which has multiple values associated(name,sal,post,income,country ,address..$#number_of_columns) so as to obtain all values from any single row of record based on key (id) --------------------------------------------------------- 

my $url1="http://xyz.com";
        my $content = LWP::Simple::get($url1);
        my $abc= new IO::Scalar \$content;
        my $csv = Text::CSV->new();
        my $data;
            while(<$abc>){
        if ($csv->parse($_)) {
                next if (/#(.*?)somedata/);#skip the first line
                my @columns = $csv->fields();#get the coulmns and the 
+corresponding row value which are stored in each index of array
                print "Server id: $columns[0]\n\t Server_Name: $column
+s[7]\n";#index 0 stores 21,22 after skipping column names similarly i
+ndex 2 stores 23,24
                        #my %ass=($columns[0],$columns[2])#prints 21=>
+23|22=>24
                                #print "@col1";# 
                        
                        
            }
            }
            ----------------------------------------------------------
+-----

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code is running fine now what i want to do is get name value pairs for example id |state 2146_oak=>state::GA:;US How do i find single data based on key from the entire hash now i am able to get values for entire row based on key i just want a single value from the entire hash based on the row key. Also suppose we have a value called state =state::GA:;US .I want to do search on the vale and if i find keyword GA in the value string i need to use the key 2146_oak and use it for some purpose .how do i do pattern matching on this. Thnx for the help i am a beginner:) soon will become a Perl monk yipee!!

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