Thanks for your advice Jim. Although it makes very good sense to me, I am having a little difficult implementing it. I will have to admit referencing is still a bit foreign to me.
I am getting the following error and I am not sure how to fix it. Type of arg 1 to push must be array (not reference constructor) at ./headers.pl line 11, near "$setref)" Execution of ./headers.pl aborted due to compilation errors. ### SCRIPT ### #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my %seen; my @header; my @data; my $setref = {}; push(\@data,$setref); my $delim = ","; while(<DATA>) { chomp; if(/(.*)=(.*)/) { $seen{$1}++; $setref->{$1} = $2; if ($seen{$1} == 1) { push(@header,$1); } } elsif(/^\s*$/) { push(@data,$setref); print Dumper \@data; } } print join($delim,@header),"\n"; __DATA__ >csno=1 rfpi=1 vrp0=3423000 vrp1=3423000 trl=1700000 repl=100 repl_d1=100 rrl=20 row[1]=yes rfpc0=0 rfpc1=0 >csno=1 rfpi=2 vrp0=3423000 vrp1=3423000 trl=1700000 repl=100 repl_d1=100 row[4]=no rrl=20 rfpc0=0 rfpc1=0 >csno=1 rfpi=3 vrp0=3423000 vrp1=3423000 trl=1700000 repl=100 repl_d1=100 rrl=20 rfpc0=0 rfpc1=0 >csno=2 rfpi=1 vrp0=3423000 vrp1=3423000 trl=1700000 repl=100 repl_d1=100 rrl=20 line=yes rfpc0=0 rfpc1=0 >csno=2 rfpi=2 vrp0=3423000 vrp1=3423000 trl=1700000 repl=100 repl_d1=100 rrl=20 rfpc0=0 line=value row[15]= tti=1 rfpc1=0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/