well, there may be more efficient means but something like this shoudl do the
trick.
sub returnkey {
foreach $zipcode (keys %hash) {
if ( $hash{$control} eq $cityname ) { return $zipcode; }
}
}
~jon
--- Big Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm converting a massive fixed width file to a delimited one, but the file
> has some fields missing. It's my job to try to deduce the value of each
> missing field from another one present in that line of the file. One
> example is deducing the missing zip code given the city field.
>
> I have a hash of zipcode-city pairs. Since a city may have more than one
> zip code, the zipcodes are the keys. If there is exactly 1 value in the
> hash that matches the city in the line of the file, I need to get the key
> for that value, but how can I do it?
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