#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe use strict; open (LST,"c:/work/test_data.lst") || die "\n$!\n"; chomp (my @data_array = ); my $snap_shot; my %seen; my @cleaned_data; foreach my $data ( @data_array) { my $rec; my ($server, @info) = split (/,/,$data); if (! $seen{$server}) { $rec->{Server_Name} = $server; print "$server\n"; $seen{$server}++; print "\t@info\n"; @{$rec->{Apps_Info}} = @info; } else { print "\t@info\n"; @{$rec->{Apps_Info}} = @info; } push (@cleaned_data, $rec); }