Hi everyone.
I have another question, it's like I can't actually grasp how to do this task I have. I have a complex structure, like the following:

$VAR1 = {
          'name1' => [
                        'property1,8.8016',
                        'property2,4.5016',
                        'property3,4.0873',
                        'property4,7.0726',
                        'property5,9.5121'
                      ],
          'name2' => [
                             'property6,5.6217',
                             'property2,4.7993',
                             'property7,4.2885',
                             'property3,11.1250',
                            ],
 'name3' => [
                             'property8,5.6217',
                             'property2,4.7993',
                             'property1,4.2885',
                             'property9,11.1250',
                            ]
}

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I should choose two words (say, in this case, name1 and name2). I should sum each score of the properties of name1 that are also properties of name2. In the example above, my sum should be the following:
4.5016+4.0873 because this are the values of property2 and property3 in name1 and property2 and property3 are the only 2 properties of name1 that occur in name2.
My problem is, I don't know where to start.
Would you please give me some input to help me, so I can get off this empasse?
Thanks,
Giulia

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