Re: adding text from different txt file into hash

while(<FILE1>){
   my $value = <FILE2>;
   $hash{$_} = $value;
}
print FILE3 join("\n", map({"$_ = $hash{$_}"} keys %hash));
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That will readu lines from file handle FILE1 and use it as a key, the value being the corresponing line in FILE2. Is it that simple? Is there some more logic I need to know about? Do you really want line1 from file1 to be the key to line1 from file2? If so that above will do it (I left out the actual opening of the files, but I assume you can do that part).

Update: You should chomp $value, as L~R so astutely points out in his code above.

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Re^2: adding text from different txt file into hash by holli (Abbot) on Apr 20, 2005 at 21:19 UTC
not safe when the files are variable length. `while(<FILE1>){ my $value = <FILE2>; warn "File lengths different!", last unless defined $value; $hash{$_} = $value; } print FILE3 join("\n", map({"$_ = $hash{$_}"} keys %hash));` [download] holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]