use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %key_hash; local $/ = "\n\n"; while ( ) { if ( /^KEY: ([^\n]+)/ ) { my $current_key = $1; while ( m/OID: ([^\n]+)\nNAME: ([^\n]+)|Error Status (.*)/g ) { if ( defined $3 ) { $key_hash{$current_key}{Error_Status} = $3; } else { push @{$key_hash{$current_key}{OID_NAME}}, [$1,$2]; } } } } print Dumper \%key_hash;