#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; use Data::Dumper; my @records = do { local $/ = '------------------------------------------'; <>; }; chomp @records; my %jira; foreach (@records) { next unless /\S/; my %rec = /^(\w+):\s*(.+?)$/mg; push @{$jira{$rec{JIRA}}}, \%rec; } say Dumper \%jira; my %prog foreach (@records) { next unless /\S/; my %rec = /^(\w+):\s*(.+?)$/mg; push @{$jira{$rec{Program}}}, \%rec; } say Dumper \%prog;