This isn't homework... But it might look that way. It's a project I'm working on for work.

This works OK but looks very inefficient... All the 'or' statements are mucking me up and I can't figure out a slicker way to do this. Take a look and see if you can do better (I'm sure at least some of you can). This is under use strict; and -w.

This code eats a text file and spits out values for each of the variables at one minute intervals, using UNIX time. The parsing is nice, this is the ugly bit - the output. 

# Figure out the first timestamp
foreach my $bar (sort keys %master) { $j = $bar; last; }
# Figure out the last timestamp
foreach my $bar (reverse sort keys %master) { $l = $bar; last; }

do { 
    my $out;
    $out .= "$j,";     
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CCMT'} || '0';
    $out .= ",";
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CCOA'} || '0';
    $out .= ",";
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CDEC'} || '0';
    $out .= ",";
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CFST'} || '0';
    $out .= ",";
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CREF'} || '0';
    $out .= ",";
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CRSP'} || '0';
    $out .= ",";
    $out .= $master{$j}{'CVEH'} || '0';
    $out .= "\n"; 
    print $out;
    $j += 60; 
   } while $j <= $l;

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