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in thread Comparing Hash key with array

Excellent! Thanks, that works as I want.
It turns out my original code, albeit verbose, almost works when I change that "==" to "eq". One of those things were you can't see the wood for the trees!

Thanks for the tip regarding iterating through @lines. There will be an huge amount of data in there when it goes live.

Thanks again

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Re^5: Comparing Hash key with array
by Riales (Hermit) on Feb 02, 2012 at 17:50 UTC
    Glad that worked for you! I just wanted to make sure you saw my edit--your code will run far faster if you iterate through @lines first.