Madhu Reddy wrote: > Hi, > I have following script, basically this will > ding the duplicate rows in a file... > > I am getting following warnings > Use of uninitialized value at Audit_WTN.pl line 133, > <FH_IN_FILE> chunk 18. > Use of uninitialized value at Audit_WTN.pl line 133, > <FH_IN_FILE> chunk 19. > > how to avoid warning at following location.... > 133 if ( $ret >= 1 ) { > > > -------------------------------- > # return 1, if record is duplicate > #returns 0, if record is not duplicate > sub find_duplicates () > { > 128 # get the key frim row > 129 $key = substr($_,8,18); > 130 $ret = $keys{$key}; > > 132 #Record is Duplicate > 133 if ( $ret >= 1 ) { > 133 $keys{$key}++; > 134 return 1; > } else { > $keys{$key}++; > return 0; #not a duplicate > } > }
Simply sub find_duplicates () { $keys{substr($_, 8, 18)}++ } which will return the number of previous occurrences of this key. HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]