Hey Monks
I have run in to an brick wall with the problem below. I have a subroutine which input the array below and I need to orgaise it into a SQL form. (SQL knowledge is not necessary to annswer this question so please read on!) Any of you familiar with SQL will see I am trying to prevent duplicate results being printed. I have an array (@array2) which contains the columns which would be duplicated so what I want to do is remove duplicate occurances of them from the full statement (stored in @array1) and create a new array (@result) which I can then pass on to the DBI.

INPUT:
------
@array1 = ("tmp0.size", "tmp0.buffersize", "tmp0.value", "tmp1.size", 
+"tmp1.buffersize", "tmp1.value");
@array2 = ("size", "buffersize");

OUTPUT:
-------
@result = ("tmp0.size", "tmp0.buffersize", "tmp0.value", "tmp1.value")
+;

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Have two results and I need to remove the values in @array2 that are partially matched in @array1. But I need to leave the first occurances. Need it to work for any number of values in both.

I also regret to inform everyone that pending an answer for this question it will be my last post on this site, maybe for ever, because I am finishing up my work experience (this is my last obsticle) and then I'm going back to college and java world.Have to say this site has been such a help. Easily the best resource or community on the net for any problems I have. Thanks and I hope to return in the future as I have been impressed by Perl.

But I'm not finished yet so any help on the above problem is appreciated. This maybe a fairly easy problem to work out but it's just not coming to me and I have only a day to get over it and finish my program. (I hate deadlines!) So please be patient. Thanks in advance.

j o h n i r l .

 Sum day soon I'Il lern how 2 spelI (nad tYpe)

In reply to Partial Array Comparision by johnirl

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