The code is reading in several files one at a time and either creating a key value pair or amending the value for the key if it exists. The trouble is keys with single values only print out the key. I understand that the value needs to be associated if the key doesn't exist but my attempts have not worked. Can you please point out my blunder?
while(<RPT>) { chop; if ($_ =~ s/^(\D+.*\d{4}\s+)(\D+.*)(\w{11})$/$1 $2 $3/ +) { $msg = $2; fmt_rpt($msg); $key = "$3"; if (exists($analysis{$key})) { $val .= "$msg"; } else { #$val = "$msg"; $analysis{$key} = "$val"; } } else { print "Program Error 2\n"; exit 1; }

20041119 Janitored by Corion: Fixed broken code tag


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