Greetings,

I have 2 flat files (both in similar format) as follows : 
012     00003200Thanksgiving road      Thanksgiving Town  TT022    A  
+ B   S

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I am reading this into 2 hashs : %File2 and %File3 and the key of hash is "00003200".
From the 3rd flat file, I have the same value "00003200" and for this value, I need to go and look into %File2 and pick up all the values associated with the key.

Question:

When I do the following :
@line = parse_line($ln) # this will parse the line using substr and sa
+ve each value in array.

if (exists $File2{$line[3]} ) {
     print "Found the match ",Dumper($File2{$line[3]}),"\n";
} else {
     print "Could not find the match \n";
}

# Tried the following and it does not work either :
if (exists $File2{"$line[3]"} ) {
     print "Found the match ",Dumper($File2{"$line[3]"}),"\n";
} else {
     print "Could not find the match \n";
}

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The above statement always fails. When I do a simple print before if statement by giving actual value of "00003200" , I do see values.

What am I missing?

Thanks for help in advance!!

In reply to hash question.. by wst

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