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

LanX has already given some good answers, so I'll just add that I'd advise against trying to do your own CSV handling. Use Text:CSV - it'll gracefully handle files that a naive approach WILL get wrong. Don't reinvent the wheel without a compelling reason.
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Re^2: perl to add results of 2 arrays from 2 files together.
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 26, 2014 at 15:50 UTC
    > I'd advise against trying to do your own CSV handling

    While "his" code tries kind of CSV handling (splitting on comma) his "data" doesn't have comma separation.

    I'd say he C&P-ed googled code¹ to pretend own efforts! :-|

    Cheers Rolf

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

    ¹) at one point he also reads the fifth column and compares it with "Yes" ?!?

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      While "his" code tries kind of CSV handling (splitting on comma) his "data" doesn't have comma separation.

      I'd say he C&P-ed googled code¹ to pretend own efforts! :-|

      Hmm, I don't think that's the case; he just didn't share his actual input data. I actually began coding a "clean" solution that he'd be able to use as a starting point, but stopped when I realized that there was no sample data to be found to test it against. Trying to reverse-engineer what it might look like would've been error-prone, and besides, like any good programmer, I'm lazy. (Which is not to say I'm a good programmer, mind you.)

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      The data from INPUT and INPUT1 is just an example of output saved to a text file. you are quite right 'while INPUT1' i am doing a count on all unique values in 'column2' that have a 'YES' in 'column6'
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