I have the following code. I want to take the resulting $name and $number arrays (I haven't pushed them into arrays yet, but you get the idea), and remove multiple names--leaving only one name that is the average value of the multiples. Also, if one of the values is 999, I want that to be added as zero (999 is used in the subsequent program as a null value). 
    my %name2number;
    open DATA, "query.txt" or die "$!";
    $/ = "\n";
    while (<DATA>) {
 my ($key, $value) = (split);
 $name2number{$key} = $value;
    }
    
    for my $name (@orf) {
 my $number;
 if ($name2number{$name}) {
     $number = $name2number{$name};
 } else {
     $number = 999;
 }
 print "$name => $number\n";
    }

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Thanks. Evan

In reply to Removing multiple values by Evanovich

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