Dear monks... I've been to several websites and tried a few scripts on my own but I'm a total newb at this, so please forgive... I'm trying (re: struggling) to write a perl script to merge two excel files. In file 1, I have data with our "in house sample names" and in file 2 I have data with different sample names but they're the same samples. I have a third reference file that tells me which are the corresponding names. Is there an easy way to merge the two spreadsheets... keeping only the sample file names common to both and keeping all of the data in tact from both sheets? ANY direction (or website) you could provide me would be greatly appreciated... THANKS

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