use strict; use warnings; my $name_id = 0; my %seen_name; for 1 .. 5; # Remove headers while ( my $line = ) { next unless $line =~/\w/; if ( $line =~ /Name/ ) { $name_id = parse_name( $line ); } else { my @tmp = split ' ', $line; shift @tmp; my $date = shift @tmp; print join ',', $name_id, $name_id, @tmp, $date; print "\n"; } } print "\n________Names file________\n\n"; for my $key ( sort { $seen_name{$a} <=> $seen_name{$b} } keys %seen_name ) { my @names = split /,/, $key; my $val = $seen_name{$key}; print join ",$val,", @names, "\n"; } sub parse_name { my $line = shift; my $name = join ',', ( split ' ', $line )[1, 3]; if ( $seen_name{$name} ) { $name_id = $seen_name{$name}; } else { $name_id += 1; $seen_name{$name} = $name_id; } return $name_id; }