Hello, I have a huge file with over 700,00 entries with 18 columns. One column is in the format 
--+-+
---++
?????
-????

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Now i have another list which corresponds to this code in a particular order 
A-1
B-7
C-11
D-3
E-100

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Now I need to match the expression above to the pattern, where +/- corresponds to A-E and ? corresponds to 0 and as an output I need to get a number. So the output should be 
--+-+ = 122  (because 1+7+11+3+100)
---++= 122
?????= 0
-???+= 101

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This is just a sample, the numbers are much bigger and the pattern runs upto 24 times. Is there any way I can do it with perl scripting ? Thank you

In reply to decoding pattern expression by randome

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