Hi, I have a file in the following format, mm/dd/yy,decimal_number.
07/01/02,8419 07/02/02,6344 07/03/02,6487 07/04/02,719 07/05/02,3768 07/06/02,1270 07/07/02,7 07/08/02,5179 07/09/02,9990 07/10/02,7968 07/11/02,7605 07/02/02,8892 07/03/02,5550 07/04/02,6483 07/05/02,786 07/06/02,4094 07/06/02,954 07/07/02,6 07/09/02,5232 07/10/02,10405 07/11/02,7600 07/12/02,7581 What I need to do is key on the date, then sum the numbers for the date, then send the date and sum to a file of the same format as above. So far, I've got this, $File = $ARGV[0]; open (F, "$File") || die "Oops, did you type the right filename?\n"; while (<F>) { ($date, $number) = split "," ; push (@{$numbers{$date}}, $number); } Does that look right? I'm not sure how to go from here. I really have a hard time understanding how to manipulate hashes. The syntax kills my brain. Any help would probably make my head quit hurting so much! deb -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There are 010 types of people in the world: those that understand binary, and those that don't. τΏτ ~ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]