WOW!

I ran one of the other scripts and it took just under 24 hours to complete and I didn't get the answer I was expecting.

Your script ran in 40 seconds and gave me exactly what I was looking for!

Would you be willing to explain how this works? I get the declaration of the hash, the while loop to load the file (not sure what "undef $words{$word};" does) but the rest is pure magic!

Thank you so much for putting together this solution...I am truely blown away.

I tried to do this using T-SQL when I first encountered the problem but that was taking forever. Then I "tried" to use PERL but had way too many questions to get it to do what I needed. Your solution is awesome!

Thanks again!

In reply to Re^8: Words in Words by sarchasm
in thread Words in Words by sarchasm

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