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Initialize $INFILE before calling loadMasters(); 

my $INFILE = ("c:\\Temp\\server.csv"); 
my %masters = loadMasters();

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Re^4: compare csv files only to first fullstop character
by john.tm (Scribe) on May 10, 2014 at 17:20 UTC
    you are quite right, i have been changing the data in the files and testing for all eventualities and left 4 columns in the master file blank. which leads to a question , where and what code could i add to turn off printf warnings as blanks cells in the input will often happen. { no warnings 'uninitialized'; }
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      Try replacing
      $_ ||= '-- missing --' for $status, $ticket, $resolution;

      with

      $_ ||= '-- missing --' for $type, $reason, $status, $ticket, $resoluti
+on;

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