in reply to A Problem With Hashes and Keys

your code works pretty well on my machine. I used the next filecontent for a test:
input: 
CA 92037
CA 92021
CA 92055
CA 92037

[download]
delete: 
92037
92055

[download]
And this gave me the output: 
CA 92021

[download]
Maybe something wrong with your input-file format?

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Re^2: A Problem With Hashes and Keys
by bivouac (Beadle) on Jul 19, 2004 at 14:54 UTC
    Is it possible that my substr call is hosing everything up? When I removed that from the code that seemed to work great - but by removing the substr call I need to adjust the incoming data which isn't a good thing. Still confused as heck.
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      Just make shure that your substr produces the same values what are stored in DELETE_FILE
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