G'day packetstormer,

I'm unsure whether your input data is raw data as you've presented it:

5030 => 5030|RED DOOR|10-14 ...

or an actual hash (which you've called "Main Hash"); this would look different to how you've presented it:

5030 => '5030|RED DOOR|10-14', ...

If the former, the following code should do what you want. I have tested this but I'm not going to repost the input data and Dumper output: it's no different to what's been posted several times already.

my %extract; while (<>) { /\s(\d+)\|(.*)\Z/ && push @{$extract{$2}}, $1; }

[I acknowledge the similarity to the technique used by Kenosis. If your input is an actual hash; I'd recommend using that code.]

-- Ken


In reply to Re: Counting Hash values? by kcott
in thread Counting Hash values? by packetstormer

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