Re^2: combining hashes based on key values

Very sweet. You have set me on the right path... not the shortest path, but the most interesting, meandering, full-of-knowledge path. There seems to be much fun in List::Compare

Thanks.

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Re^3: combining hashes based on key values by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 08, 2005 at 05:00 UTC
As I look at it again, you're more interested in left complement and right complement than in symmetrical difference, because you're going to need to build a list based on what's only in jibber, a list based on what's only in jabber, and then the intersection (a list based on what's in both jibber and in jabber). List::Compare is going to get you most of the way there, if you look at the two input lists as: `@{$in_hash{jibber}} # Left list @{$in_hash{jabber}} # Right list` [download] Dave	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: combining hashes based on key values
by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 08, 2005 at 05:00 UTC

As I look at it again, you're more interested in left complement and right complement than in symmetrical difference, because you're going to need to build a list based on what's only in jibber, a list based on what's only in jabber, and then the intersection (a list based on what's in both jibber and in jabber).

List::Compare is going to get you most of the way there, if you look at the two input lists as:

@{$in_hash{jibber}} # Left list
@{$in_hash{jabber}} # Right list
[download]

Dave

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