Exactly what I'm looking for! (Amazing stuff)
Out of intrest, if I wanted to look at the exact no. sold ie. get output like: apples, 4, 3 and 0 where would I start looking? Many many thanks! Mark On Friday 12 April 2002 15:55, you wrote: > On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 03:56 , Mark. wrote: > > > apples, melon, oranges, pears, coconut, lemons, grapefruit > > 4, 3, 2, 7, 1, 4, 0 > > 3, 1, 4, 4, 0, 0, 1 > > 0, 4, 0, 0, 4, 5, 0 > > http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/FruitPickFromCVS.txt > > offers an illustration about how this problem can be solved. > > To test the sub get_store_hash - I of course pass in the file > to be parsed - expecting to get a hash back. > > hence how some ever one wished to tie the store data file to the > hash is up to the user.... and since one can index into the returned > hash knowing > > $count_o_fruit = $retHash{ $fruit } ; > > the rest is merely option picking for command line parsing... > and > > "so given <N> hashes of arbitrary size how does one pick > out the common values...." > > ciao > drieux > > --- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]