Well, yes the two files are related. They both contain parts of a single price file from one of our suppliers. My goal is to open each file and read it into a hash. What I am attempting to do is place each line in an array and perform some operations on the line before it goes into the hash. I have worked on it a little today but it is on my work VM and it is late so I don't feel like firing up my laptop to VPN. I will place the new script on my scratchpad tomorrow.