in reply to Re^4: Retrieving Key and Value Hashes
in thread Retrieving Key and Value Hashes

Here's one approach:

Data file 1 file_1.dat:

name1 ABCD name2 BCD name3 ASCDA name4 AAAAA

Data file 2 file_2.dat:

name1 0.2 name5 0.3 name4 0.0002 name7 0.222

Script check_hash_vs_keys_1.pl:

use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; # validate script arguments. die "usage: perl $0 data_file_1 data_file_2 \n" unless @ARGV >= 2; # capture data file names. my $file_1_name = $ARGV[0]; my $file_2_name = $ARGV[1]; # open 1st data file, read to 1st hash. open (my $fh_data_1, '<', $file_1_name) or die "opening '$file_1_name': $!"; my %hash_1 = split ' ', do { local $/; <$fh_data_1>; }; close $fh_data_1 or die "closing '$file_1_name': $!"; # print Dumper \%hash_1; # FOR DEBUG -- sanity check # open 2nd data file, process line-by-line. open (my $fh_data_2, '<', $file_2_name) or die "opening '$file_2_name': $!"; while (my $line = <$fh_data_2>) { my ($k) = split ' ', $line; # print "split key '$k' \n"; # FOR DEBUG print "'$k' -> '$hash_1{$k}' \n" if defined($k) and exists $hash_1{$k}; } close $fh_data_2 or die "closing '$file_2_name': $!";

Output:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks\gghelpneeded>perl check_hash_vs_keys_1.pl file_1.d +at file_2.dat 'name1' -> 'ABCD' 'name4' -> 'AAAAA'


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