I apologize my question is confusing and that I haven't followed proper update protocol. Please do not interpret my mistakes as a lack of care to post things the proper way on this forum. I changed around the question multiple times in order to attempt to make it more clear, and to try and address the previous answers. The script I posted doesn't compile because I edited all the variable names to try to make them generic and thus clear, and I left one unchanged by mistake.

All I want to do is learn how to use perl to accomplish the same thing done with the unix join command in a bash environment because it would make my life much easier if I didn't have to write a script every time I need to analyze a particular unison between two files. Join works great but I would like to have finer control than it allows.

In reply to Re^4: Command Line Hash to print things in common between two files by ZWcarp
in thread Command Line Hash to print things in common between two files by ZWcarp

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