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mantra2006 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks
I need your ideas in tackling this problem with perl. The following is the requirement
consider a file with the following format: a header row with colon-se +parated field names, and data rows with colon-separated values. for example: AGE:EYES:HAIR 32:BLUE:BLONDE 54:BROWN:BROWN Now from the command line if I pass AGE as parameter then it should gi +ve me 32 & 54...if I pass HAIR then it should give me BLONDE & BROWN. +...
Any ideas how to tackle this problem is welcome....thanks in advance for the help...

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Sridhar "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”- Henry Ford