I can not wrap my head around an easy way of doing this. I have code and it works, there is just a lot of the code and it seems a bit on the repetative side. Here is the code: 
   %new_sect= buildhash('sect');
   %h_srf   = buildhash('rf');

   #### Start comparing!
   while(<OSS>) {
      chomp;
      s/\015//g;
      ### Split OSS file
      my($cellsiteID,$sectID,$mcc,$mnc,$lac,$ci,$bscid,$bts,
         $bearing,$mscID,$lat,$long,$tilt,$agl) = (split /,/, $_ );

      ### Set new varibles for reports or build of new scout!
      my($s_cellsite,$s_sectid,$s_mcc,$s_mnc,$s_lac,$s_ci,$s_bscid,
         $s_bts,$s_bearing,$s_mscid,$s_lat,$s_long,$s_tilt,$s_agl);

      if(exists $h_ssect{$cellsiteID."_".$sectID}) {
         my (@scoutSA,@scoutRA);
         my $change = 0;
         chomp(@scoutSA = split(/,/,$h_ssect{$cellsiteID."_".$sectID})
+);
         chomp(@scoutRA = split(/,/,$h_srf{$cellsiteID}));

         if($mcc !~ /^$scoutSA[$ocfg{'oss2.primpos'}]$/) {
            $change++; $s_mcc = $mcc;
            push(@{$chged{$cellsiteID."_".$sectID} },
                 $mcc,$scoutSA[$ocfg{'oss2.primpos'}] );
         } else {
            $s_mcc = $scoutSA[$ocfg{'oss2.primpos'}];
            push(@{$chged{$cellsiteID."_".$sectID}}, "NULL","NULL");
         }
         ...

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The second "if" statement goes on for 13 columns... Question is there a shorter (code wise) to do this repetative code? Some columns are numbers some is ASCII. And the varibles do not have to be set that way, they could be a generic variable with a number if it makes the code shorter. Thank you, Robert

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