in reply to Re: Extracting non-consecutive but related items from an array.
in thread Extracting non-consecutive but related items from an array.

#use strict; use FileHandle; # Global Declaration my($spool,%serverdet); open (spooler ,"data.dat") or die "Error opening the file\n"; while($spool=<spooler>) { chomp($spool); ($server,$dat1,$dat2)=split(/,/,$spool); if($serverdet{$server}) { $serverdet{$server} .= ";".$dat1.",".$dat2; }else{ $serverdet{$server} = $dat1.",".$dat2; } } foreach $key (sort keys %serverdet) { print "Server $key\n"; @val = split(/;/,$serverdet{$key}); foreach $val (sort @val) { print $val."\n"; } }
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