There is nothing wrong in using Text::CSV_XS so far. The problem is how to restructure the information. You can use the following code as an inspiration:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature 'say'; use Text::CSV_XS; use Data::Dumper; my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new(); $_ = <DATA>; $csv->parse($_); my @companies = $csv->fields; splice @companies, 0, 2; my %hash; while (<DATA>) { $csv->parse($_); my @fields = $csv->fields; for my $i (0 .. $#companies) { $hash{$companies[$i]}{$fields[1]} = $fields[2 + $i]; } } print Dumper \%hash; __DATA__ Product Name,Product Code,Company1,Company2,Company3 Test One,C001,Y,N,N Test Two,C002,N,N,Y Test Three,C003,Y,Y,N

In reply to Re: Read data from csv file to a data structure format by choroba
in thread Read data from csv file to a data structure format by Anonymous Monk

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