Hi everyone-- Pardon my "newbieness"--this question seems like it should be pretty easily solved, but I can't seem to think about it right. I have a file that contains two columns: a name column and a column of numbers. I also have an array that contains a list of names. The array contains almost all of the names in the file, as well as many others that are not in the file. Here's what I mean exactly: 


   FILE                 ARRAY
name1   4.5             name1
name3   3.4             name2  
name5   6.5             name3 
name4   -7.9            name4
name6   3.2             name5

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And I want to end up with an array of numbers, sorted by the names in the array. And, where there is a null value, I want 999 entered. Thus, I want the resulting array to be something like this: 

4.5
999
3.4
-7.9
999

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I'm just having a bit of trouble doing the correct (and time-efficient) iteration. The columns and arrays are about 10,000 elements long. Thanks, Evan

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