in reply to Hash Question

I'm going to go strictly off your description, as what you said you want to print out doesn't seem to match the description as I understand it.

I would just do something like this:

@ACCTS = ("1234", "5678", "6959"); open(IN,"InFile.txt"); %acct=""; while (defined($line = (<IN>))){ foreach $x (@ACCTS) { if ($line =~/$x/){ #only print the first line we see for each account unless( exists $acct{$x} ){ print "$line\n"; $acct{$x}++; } } } }
Or if you need to store all the data for other purposes:
@ACCTS = ("1234", "5678", "6959"); open(IN,"InFile.txt"); %acct=""; while (defined($line = (<IN>))){ foreach $x (@ACCTS) { if ($line =~/$x/){ push(@{$acct{$x}},$line); } } } foreach $key (sort keys %acct){ print "$key,$acct{$key}[0]\n"; }

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Re^2: Hash Question
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 10, 2011 at 23:18 UTC
    %acct="";

    Initializing a hash (and a non-lexical one for good measure) with a key of an empty string with the default value of undef produces a warning if warnings are enabled, as they almost always should be – along with strictures.

    use warnings; use strict;
Re^2: Hash Question
by mmittiga17 (Scribe) on Jan 11, 2011 at 19:33 UTC

    Thank you all very much for the help. With your help I learned something new and got my script to work. <\p>