If the purpose of @emp and @fields is to restrict the output to just those, then you can use them to filter.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my @emp = ('riya','vinoth');
my @fields = ('age','company','call','address','country','name');
my %nameh = map { $_, 1 } @emp;
my %fieldh = map { $_, 1 } @fields;
my @array = ( 'name riya',
'age 34',
'company xxxx',
'fax 8765432109',
'name vinoth',
'age 25',
'call 12345678',
'company xxxx',
'address asdd',
'country Ind',
);
my %hash;
my $name;
while (@array) {
my $line = shift @array;
if (my ($field, $value) = $line =~ /^(.*) (.*)/) {
$name = $value if 'name' eq $field;
$hash{$name}{$field} = $value if ($nameh{$name} && $fieldh{$fi
+eld});
} else {
warn "Invalid line '$line'.\n";
}
}
print Dumper \%hash;
The output will omit the fax field I added to riya's data because it was not found in @fields.
Update: added name to list of fields! This is what comes of not testing your code.
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