Hi John, I received your code. Thanks. I would like to know how to check the values of the keys in the hash. I checked the Perl cookbook and It showed me how to get the key value pairs and print them, but I am not familiar with populating an array with a hash, or how to dynamically print the values out.
Please help. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------- I my $file = 'artb30_short.da4'; open INFILE, $file or die "Can't open $file: $!"; my @order_detail; while ( <INFILE> ) { last if /^GROUP TOTALS/; s/\s+\Z//; # remove all trailing whitespace next unless /\d\.\d\d\Z/; # only want lines with dollar amounts at end my %item; if ( length() < 120 ) { # item 1 lines are shorter @item{ qw/cust_number cust_name cycle customer_type acct_contact phone credit_limit/ } = map { s/^\s+//; $_ } unpack 'A6 x2 A30 x2 A5 x2 A15 x2 A20 x2 A15 x2 A*', $_; # unpack'A' removes trailing whitespace so we need the map{} # to remove leading whitespace } elsif ( /^\d/ ) { # item 2 lines start with a digit @item{ qw/inv_no type inv_date current days_1_30 days_31_60 days_61_90 days_over_90 on_hold unap_cash total_ar/ } = map { s/^\s+//; $_ } unpack 'A6 x A3 x A8' . 'x3 A11' x 8, $_; } else { # item 3 lines @item{ qw/cust_totals_current cust_totals_days_1_30 cust_totals_days_31_60 cust_totals_days_61_90 cust_totals_days_over_90 cust_totals_on_hold cust_totals_unap_cash cust_totals_total_ar/ } = map { s/^\s+//; $_ } unpack 'x19' . 'x3 A11' x 8, $_; } push @order_detail, \%item; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>