Argument "Attendance" isn't numeric in array or hash lookup at script.pl line 36, line 1. Argument "Sales" isn't numeric in array or hash lookup at script.pl line 36, line 1. Argument "Tickets" isn't numeric in array or hash lookup at script.pl line 36, line 1. Argument "Fans" isn't numeric in array or hash lookup at script.pl line 36, line 1. #### #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @report_name = qw(Attendance Sales Tickets Fans); while () { my %by_report = split ' '; print Dumper(\%by_report); for (@report_name) { print "report_name is: $_\n"; if ( exists ($by_report{$_} ) ) { print "$_ Report is: $by_report{$_}\n"; } else { print "No data for $_ Report\n"; } } } __DATA__ Attendance 7424 Sales 7074 Tickets 350 Fans 109 Attendance 321541 Sales 321508 Tickets 31 Fans 101 Attendance 9208 Sales 9208 Fans 102 Attendance 9832 Sales 9829 Tickets 3 Fans 106 Attendance 1559058 Sales 1503174 Tickets 55404 Fans 104