Another way to do it:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %data;

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map {chomp $_->[2]; $data{$_->[0]}{$_->[1]}{$_->[2]} = ''} [split /\s+
+/]
    for <DATA>;

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$data{$_->[0]}{$_->[1]}{$_->[2]} = '' for map [split], <DATA>;

for my $num (reverse sort keys %data) {
    print "$num\t$_\t", (join ",", keys %{$data{$num}{$_}}), "\n"
        for keys %{$data{$num}};
}

__DATA__
848    05/23/06    11:00
848    05/23/06    12:30
848    05/23/06    13:00
848    05/23/06    14:00
848    05/25/06    11:00
848    05/25/06    12:00
261    05/24/06    11:00
261    05/24/06    12:30
261    05/24/06    13:00
261    05/24/06    13:00
261    05/24/06    13:00
261    05/24/06    13:00

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Prints:

848    05/23/06    12:30,11:00,14:00,13:00
848    05/25/06    11:00,12:00
261    05/24/06    12:30,11:00,13:00

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Update: apply jwkrahn's neat round of golf

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Combining flat file records by GrandFather
in thread Combining flat file records by pglinx

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