in reply to perl to add results of 2 arrays from 2 files together.

that's what you are looking for?

DB<253> @a{a..c}=1..3 => (1, 2, 3) DB<254> @b{b..d}=6..8 => (6, 7, 8) DB<255> $c{$_}=$a{$_}+$b{$_} for (keys %a,keys %b) => "" DB<256> \%c => { a => 1, b => 8, c => 10, d => 8 }

NB: you might need to set no warnings 'uninitialized' in a scope surrounding line 255.

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

update

I just noticed that, while producing correct results, this code will be a bit redundant, cause it repeats operations (here for b and c)

If this is really an issue, do an exists $c{$_} check before adding or apply uniq from List::MoreUtils.