On Jan 2, Paul Kraus said: >I don't think your solution will work. >Since the count being taken is going to be sparadic. > >somelements only = 1 at the BOF but by EOF it equals 4. Since you tested >per line your results will be bad because at test time for that line >somelement only = 1 when actually it was equal to 4. Wow that confused >me :)
My solution DOES work (as does Mr. Dixon's modification). EACH TIME a field is encountered, I check to see if its %dup value is 1 or not. If the value is NOT 1, I delete it from the hash. >> if ($dup{field} == 1) { $vend{$field} = $value } This is only true the FIRST time the field is seen. And 'field' should be $field. My apologies. >> else { delete $vend{$field} } This happens ALL other times $field is encountered. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]