Hey guys

ok sorry i just re-read it and it is very confusing i will give you a better example

This is an example of my Data

 Numbers.txt
33    5
34    7
36    7
37    8    
38    0
etc

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Right now my problem is i have 3 million of these data points and dozens of files. What i am trying to do is make a program so that any numbers missed between 1 and 3000,050 is given the value zero on the right hand side like this 

 full_numbers.txt
1    0
2    0
3    0
4    0
…
33    5
34    7
36    7
37    8    
38    0
…
3000050    0

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so all the missing numbers between 1-3000050 are given the value zero

I would like to make the code so that it accepts an input file and the output goes into another file on a tab based spacing format. This is as far as i got 

#!/usr/bin/perl




$spacer = "\t"; 

$INPUTFILE = "/Users/ts/desktop/work/numbers.txt";

open(INPUTFILE) or die("File error: input file\n");
open (OUTPUTFILE, "/Users/ts/desktop/work/full_numbers.txt");

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OK now i think i need to splice the data since it is in columns then i am unsure.</>

Once again i apologise for any confusion in original question and i hope this clears things help

Thanks in advance

In reply to Re^2: Completing a list/ array? by Taylorswift13
in thread Completing a list/ array? by Taylorswift13

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