I am try to use part of someones elses code that creats the data file which prints out like this:
ip|result|deptA|data ip|result|deptB|data ip|result|deptC|data My goal instead of having all the data in one big file is to loop this and create a file for each result. So I would have a deptA.out file with deptA info then a deptB.out file with dept b info and etc... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my %dept = (); while (<DATA>) { # safely remove a carriage return from the file chomp $_; next if ($_ eq ""); my @lines = split(/[|]/); #$line[3] = %dept++; $dept{$lines[2]}++; #print "$line"; #foreach $line (@lines) { #print $line."\n"; #} } #print "@{[ %dept ]}\n"; #print "%dept"; my @array=keys(%dept); print "All of the elements stored in %dept are @array \n"; __DATA__ ip|result|deptA|data ip|result|deptB|data ip|result|deptC|data How would I create a file for each hash then print to it??? Thanks, Ron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>