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
> 
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