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would this layout would be an easier an approach to parse

Maybe, depends on what pages 2 and 3 are like. Are you parsing many reports all formatted the same ?. Or is the 3 pages just a small sample of the real report.

#!perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $infile = 'report1.txt'; # date address description my $fmt = "A16 A38 A*"; my @data = (); my $recno = -1; my $flag = 0; open IN,'<',$infile or die "$infile $!"; while (<IN>){ chomp; next unless /\S/; $flag = 0 if /Page \d of \d/; my ($date,$addr,$desc) = unpack $fmt,$_; if ( $date =~ /\d\d.\d\d.20\d\d/ ){ $flag = 1; ++$recno; $data[$recno] = [ $date,$addr,$desc ]; } elsif ($flag) { $data[$recno][1] .= ' '.$addr if $addr; $data[$recno][2] .= ' '.$desc if $desc; } } close IN; print scalar(@data)." records read\n"; print Dumper \@data;
poj

In reply to Re^3: creating array of hashes from input file by poj
in thread creating array of hashes from input file by chimiXchanga

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