in reply to help required on modifying a file content

Hi Bharath,

Assuming that data given are splitted by space rather than tab's, Here is my try.

use strict; use warnings; my @result; while (<DATA>) { s/\s*$//; my $line = $_; if (m/[A-Z]/){ my $next_line = <DATA>; while (m/^|\s+/g){ my $pos = pos; my ($key)=$line=~/^.{$pos}(\S+)/; my $value; if ($next_line=~/^.{$pos}(\s+)/) { $value=""; } else { ($value)=$next_line=~/.{$pos}(\S+)/; } push @result,[$key,$value]; } } } @result = sort {$a->[0] cmp $b->[0]} @result; print join ',', map {$_->[0]}@result; print join ',', map {$_->[1]}@result; __DATA__ A1 9198 B1 C1 D1 E1 F1 23 232 233 G1 H1 I1 2222 323

Regards,
Murugesan Kandasamy
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