#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use XML::Simple; require 'test1.pl'; my $airlineLoc = "definitions/airline.csv"; my %hash; @hash{'AirIATA'}=get_IATA($airlineLoc,'PGT'); my $letter1 = substr($hash{'AirIATA'},0,1); my $letter2 = substr($hash{'AirIATA'},1,2); print $letter1,"\n",$letter2,"\n";