in reply to Re^2: Extracting records with unique ID
in thread Extracting records with unique ID

instead of using a hash where keys and values are strings, use a hash where the keys are strings and the values are references to arrays (so you can put more than one value for a key):
my %h; while( <> ) { my ($k, $v) = process $_; push @{$h{$k}}, $v } for my $k ( keys %h ) { #traverse all keys for my $v ( @{$h{$K}} ) { #traverse all values for that key do_your_stuff $k, $v; } }
and read perllol, perlreftut, perlref, perldsc... I would prefer you read them in that order, but do as you please!!!
[]s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)