Greetings, Anonymous Monk.

Sorting may be the reason why the script is failing, but am not sure at which point the script hangs on your machine. Have you tried not sorting the hash?

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

no warnings qw( numeric );

my $file_count = @ARGV;
my %seen;
$/ = "";

if ( @ARGV == 0 ) {
    print "usage: perl $0 file1.txt file2.txt ...\n";
    exit 1;
}

while ( my $key = <> ) {
    chomp $key;

    # obtain "\t" position
    my $tabPos = rindex $key, "\t";

    # extract value
    my $value  = substr $key, $tabPos + 1;

    # obtain key1
    my @lines  = split /\n/, $key, 3;
    my $key1   = $lines[1];

    $seen{$key1} //= do {
        # trim "\t" and value from key
        substr $key, $tabPos, length($value) + 1, '';

        [ $key ];
    };

    push @{ $seen{$key1} }, $value;
}

my $tot;

# sorting requires 2x memory allocation and possibly
# exhaust available memory, hang, or crash

# foreach my $key1 ( sort keys %seen ) {
#     if ( @{ $seen{$key1} } >= $file_count ) {
#         $tot = 0;
#         for my $val ( @{ $seen{$key1} } ) {
#           # $tot += ( split /:/, $val )[0];
#             $tot += $val; # Perl ignores the string after number
#         }
#         print join "\t", @{ $seen{$key1} };
#         print "\tcount:". $tot."\n\n";
#     }
# }

# try this instead for lesser memory consumption

  while ( my ( $key1, $aref ) = each %seen ) {
      if ( @{ $aref } >= $file_count ) {
          $tot = 0;
          for my $val ( @{ $aref } ) {
            # $tot += ( split /:/, $val )[0];
              $tot += $val; # Perl ignores the string after number
          }
          print join "\t", @{ $aref };
          print "\tcount:". $tot."\n\n";
      }
  }

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Regards.

In reply to Re: modification of the script to consume less memory with higher speed by Anonymous Monk
in thread modification of the script to consume less memory with higher speed by Anonymous Monk

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