I have multiple CSV files (3 for this example) with identical record layouts except that each Server Name may not be in all of the files. Also the CSV files might not be sorted by Server Name.
File A Server Name,Avg CPU,P95 CPU,Avg Mem Util,P95 Mem Util WSOMQAVPRA05,93.75,95.87,66.67,68.13 wsomdavpra03,90.39,94,65.77,68.51 wsomddvfxa01,39.22,92.19,82.59,88.25 File B Server Name,Avg CPU,P95 CPU,Avg Mem Util,P95 Mem Util WSOMQAVPRA05,34.78,100,55.1,67.6 wsomdavpra03,69.04,98.55,84.07,89.73 wsomddvfxa01,92.44,97.54,67.72,71.69 wsompapgtw05,48.77,96.9,92.1,93.55 File C Server,Avg CPU,P95 CPU,Avg Mem Util,P95 Mem Util WSOMQAVPRA05,93.13,98.11,68.95,73.47 wsomdavpra03,68.85,97.56,76.35,98.23 wsomddvfxa01,46.97,96.29,88.23,94.02 wsompapgtw05,30.66,93.74,39.89,71.35 What I am trying to do is for each Server (in Column 1) I want to get the Avg CPU (in Column 2) from each of the 3 files. In the files above this would produce File OUT WSOMQAVPRA05,93.75,34.78,93.13 wsomdavpra03,90.39,69.04,68.85 wsomddvfxa01,39.22,92.44,46.97 wsompapgtw05,0,48.77,30.66 Notice in File OUT for Server Name (wsompapgtw05), since wsompapgtw05 does not appear in File A, the value is replaced with '0'. How can I get perl to place a '0' in the output file when a particular server name appears in at least 1 of the input files, but not in all of the input files? The perl code I've written up to this point does not handle the missing server and Avg.CPU value. I think that I need to add code to first build a hash which contains the server names in a key by going through all the files - 3 for this example - and then iterating over that list of servers in a while loop, inserting the value found in the respective file or a '0'. You will see in my code, which follows I have created 1 hash. I am not sure in perl how I might attempt to build this additional hash with a Server Name as key and then iterating over that list. My code so far is: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; ########################################### # Create File with Average CPU Numbers ########################################### my %resultacpu; for my $file ("FileA","FileB","FileC") { open (my $fh,"<",$file) or die "Can't open file $file: $!"; <$fh>; # skip header line while (my $line = <$fh>) { my ($server,$cpua) = (split(",",$line))[0,1]; push @{$resultacpu{$server}},$cpua; } close $fh or die "Can't close file $file: $!"; } open (my $nfh,">","OUT") or die "Can't open result file: $!"; for my $server (sort keys %resultacpu) { print $nfh $server.",".join(",",@{$resultacpu{$server}})."\n"; } close $nfh or die "Can't close result file: $!"; I would appreciate the assistance of any perl coders who might be able to help me with this problem -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/