#!c:\perl\bin\perl -w use strict; my $currentheading; my %hash; my @headings; my @array; open(FILE,"c:\\test.txt"); while(my $line = ) { chomp($line); if($line =~ /(.*?:)$/) { $currentheading = $1; push @headings, $currentheading; } else { push @{$hash{$currentheading}}, $line; } } for my $x(0..$#headings) { my $record = 0; for my $y(0..$#{$hash{$headings[$x]}}) { $array[$record][$x] = $hash{$headings[$x]}[$y]; $record++; } } my $header = join ",",@headings; print "$header\n"; for my $x(0..$#array) { my $recordline = join ",", @{$array[$x]}; print "$recordline\n"; }