Hello, another newbie here.

I have been working on a script for 3 days and cannot get this last part to work. I have two hashes %hash and %end.
the keys of %end are in %hash.
I want to delete the keys in %hash if they exist in %end this way when I print %hash after the iteration, it will contain the key/value pairs I want.
I then assign the %hash to an array and print the array.
I've used this code which give me "Use of Uninitialized.." errors
foreach $k(keys %hash){delete ($hash{$k}) unless exists $end{$_};}
I've tried to write this every way I can imagine, nothing works. Please oh please someone help me so I can get some sleep.

2004-11-12 Edited by Arunbear: Changed title from '3 days of frustration', as per Monastery guidelines


In reply to Delete keys in hash if they exist in another hash by tgolf4fun

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