Joseph Paish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] : # everything works well up to here !!!!!!!! : : # what i want to do is loop through the sorted unique part : numbers array and print out all the array elements in : @all_of_them that have a part number that matches that : unique value. i then move onto the next unique part number : and do the same thing [snip]
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # Create Data Structure (Hash of Arrays) my %parts; while ( defined( my $line = <DATA> ) ) { my $part_number = ( split ' ', $line )[3]; push @{ $parts{ $part_number } }, $line; } # Print Report sorted by Part Numbers (alphanumeric) foreach my $part_number ( sort keys %parts ) { print @{ $parts{ $part_number } } } __DATA__ 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget1 0.230 0.00 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget3 0.230 0.00 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget1 0.230 0.00 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget2 0.230 0.00 prints: 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget1 0.230 0.00 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget1 0.230 0.00 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget2 0.230 0.00 03/06/1997 sold 1000 widget3 0.230 0.00 Array of unique part numbers: keys %parts Sorted Array of unique part numbers: sort keys %parts More on Hash of Arrays(HoA): perldsc HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Head Bottle Washer, Clarkson Energy Homes, Inc. Mobile Home Specialists 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>