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in thread Best way to store/access large dataset?

The problem lies in my actual file names and the way the column variable is assigned. I have a couple types of file formats unfortunately...

Type 1 = combinationoftextnumbersandcaharacter.fileextension
Type 2 = combinationoftextnumbersandcaharacter.combinationoftextnumber
+sandcaharacter.fileextension

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In either case, only the first block is needed. The second block in Type 2 can be ignored as well as the file extension for both.
I'm going to look at regular expressions and try to make that work.

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Re^4: Best way to store/access large dataset?
by Speed_Freak (Sexton) on Jun 22, 2018 at 16:11 UTC

    I was able to read in the ID file by doing the following:

    my @split_names = split(/\./,$fileext);
my ($column) = $split_names[0];

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    But that only creates problems in the follow on summation block.

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