Sorry Rodrick, i didn't gave enough info. This is part of a longer Perl script
that I inherited from a former co-worker. The feed actually contains more info
than that i gave. I just needed to add the logic described in my previous email
to that existing script.
Rodrick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:39 PM,
Bobby wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a flat file that contains a pid, us_size and euro_size. I want to
> create read in the file and create one hash for the us_size (%US) and the
> other for the euro_size (%EURO). Then i want to do a print statement if the
> pid value in the us_size hash is equal to pid value in the euro_size
> hash...maybe IF ($US{$pid} = $EURO{$pid}) {print statement...}.
>
> The part where i'm stuck on is how to assign the data into a hash and do the
> comparison, could one of you help me with the Perl's syntax or point in the
> right direction?
>
> Thanks much!
>
>
> pid|us_size|euro_size
> 1|10|34
> 2|11|35
> 3|12|37
> 4|13|
>
>
>
Why do you need a hash?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /tmp/out
1|10|34
2|11|35
3|12|37
4|13|13
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ perl -nle '($pid,$u,$e) = split/\|/,$_; print
"PID: $pid US: $u EU: $e" if ($u =~ m/$e/)' /tmp/out
PID: 4 US: 13 EU: 13
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