Your task is recursive in nature. Here is one way to approach it:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %tifs = ( '2014-06-01 00:00:00' => 'file_01.tif', '2014-06-02 00:00:00' => 'file_02.tif', '2014-06-03 00:00:00' => 'file_03.tif', '2014-06-04 00:00:00' => 'file_04.tif', ); hashmath( sort( keys( %tifs ) ) ); exit; sub hashmath { my @times = @_; print '@times has ' . scalar( @times ) . " elements\n"; print Dumper(\@times); my $time = shift( @times ); for my $next_time ( @times ) { # do math and whatever here print "Subtracting $time from $next_time\n"; } hashmath( @times ) if @times > 1; return; } __END__
Here is the output:
$ perl hashmath.pl @times has 4 elements $VAR1 = [ '2014-06-01 00:00:00', '2014-06-02 00:00:00', '2014-06-03 00:00:00', '2014-06-04 00:00:00' ]; Subtracting 2014-06-01 00:00:00 from 2014-06-02 00:00:00 Subtracting 2014-06-01 00:00:00 from 2014-06-03 00:00:00 Subtracting 2014-06-01 00:00:00 from 2014-06-04 00:00:00 @times has 3 elements $VAR1 = [ '2014-06-02 00:00:00', '2014-06-03 00:00:00', '2014-06-04 00:00:00' ]; Subtracting 2014-06-02 00:00:00 from 2014-06-03 00:00:00 Subtracting 2014-06-02 00:00:00 from 2014-06-04 00:00:00 @times has 2 elements $VAR1 = [ '2014-06-03 00:00:00', '2014-06-04 00:00:00' ]; Subtracting 2014-06-03 00:00:00 from 2014-06-04 00:00:00 $

You must always remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.

In reply to Re: Hash Math by boftx
in thread Hash Math by marlowvoltron

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