Not a real contestant, but a different approach using TSV/XS (just because I could not resist):

$ cat -te tt1.txt
camel^I42$
pearl^I94$
dromedary^I69$

$ cat -te tt2.txt
camel^I8$
hello^I12345$
dromedary^I1$

$ perl -MText::CSV_XS=csv -wE'csv(in=>*ARGV,sep=>"\t",out=>undef,on_in
+=>sub{$x{$_[1][0]}+=$_[1][1]});printf"%-20s %6d\n",$_,$x{$_}for sort 
+keys%x' tt?.t
camel                    50
dromedary                70
hello                 12345
pearl                    94

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: Rosetta Code: Long List is Long by Tux
in thread Rosetta Code: Long List is Long by eyepopslikeamosquito

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