Yes. Loop through the array, for each element get the first 2 characters
using substr, then pass it to hash as key to get the corresponding value.
--
Shekar
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:51 PM, jet speed <speedj...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Shekar,
>
> Appreciate your help, you saved me a lot of time !
>
> I applied your loop and it works fine. Apologies i couldn't post my final
> program due to our internal system restriction.hence i have used test data
> here.
>
>
> @match = ("6c7b00", "6d7b00", "6d9d8f", "6c6863", "6e6632");
>
>
> %abc = ('6c' =>'device1', '6d'=> 'device5', '6e'=> 'device3',
> '6g'=>'device9');
>
> foreach my $element(@match) {
>
>
> print $element."=>".$abc{substr($element, 0, 2)}."\n";
>
>
> }
>
>
> if i understand right, the loop scrolls through the array elements and
> prints the hash value if it matches the first 2 character. pls correct me
> if am wrong, Thanks
>
> Sj
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Shekar <c.shekar1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would this help.
>>
>> @match = ("6c7b00", "6d7b00", "6d9d8f", "6c6863", "6e6632");
>>
>>
>> %abc = ('6c' =>'device1', '6d'=> 'device5', '6e'=> 'device3',
>> '6g'=>'device9');
>>
>> foreach my $element(@match) {
>>
>>
>> print $element."=>".$abc{substr($element, 0, 2)}."\n";
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> --
>> Shekar
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Lawrence Statton <lawre...@cluon.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/04/2012 11:26 AM, jet speed wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to find the array elements in hash, if it matches then print
>>>> the hash value. Please help me to achieve this.
>>>>
>>>> Note: array elements matches the first 2 characters of the hash keys.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> @match = ("6c7b00", "6d7b00", "6d9d8f", "6c6863", "6e6632");
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> %abc = ('6c' => device1, '6d'=>device5, '6e'=>device3, '6g'=>device9);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Appreciate your help with this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Sj
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What have you written thus far?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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