Hi, I'd like to thank you for your fast repsonse.

In regards to your solution, I've refrained from using hashes because I have elements/keys that appear more than once and I need to include them all in my final output.

For example, in file 2, the first three lines, would have the same key and different values. example:


cat1=cat2
cat1=cat9
cat1=cat10
FILE 1: dog1=bird2=cat1

So what I would have to do, is find a way to create three lines from FILE 1, push these into a new 2D array, and then join the values to the keys, so my new array will be.
index 0 - dog1=bird2=cat1=cat2
index 1 - dog1=bird2=cat1=cat9
index 2 - dog1=bird2=cat1=cat10

The reason I cannot use a hash is because in this case it would only create the first line:
index 0 - dog1=bird2=cat1=cat2
since hashes cannot have identical keys for different values.

In reply to Re^2: Help needed please: Data Manipulation in 2D Array by Syntenty
in thread Help needed please: Data Manipulation in 2D Array by Syntenty

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