use Text::xSV; sub build_hash { my ($file_) = @_; my $reader = Text::xSV->new(); $reader->open_file( $file_ ); my %result; my $line = 0; while ( my $row = $reader->get_row() ) { # @{ $result{ ++$line } }{ 1 .. scalar(@$row) } = @$row; $line++; for my $i ( 1 .. @$row ) { $result{$line}{$i} = $row->[ $i-1 ] } } return %result; }