On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:03 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Oh - I wanted to eliminate all members of the array that had more than > 10 instances of the same port. I was hoping that you could do > something like "count keys where port = gi1/1/49". After knowing how > many gi1/1/49 there were, you could remove them if they met your high > water mark. > > I ended out just looking for duplicates, which will achieve the basic > task at hand.: snip
The first thing you need to do is start using the strict* and warning** pragmas. You may think they are an unnecessary pain now, but trust us, they are invaluable. Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use constant ROGUE_THRESHOLD => 3; open my $bad, ">", "probably_on_a_rogue_swtich.txt" or die "could not open probably_on_a_rogue_swtich.txt: $!"; open my $good, ">", "good.txt" or die "could not open good.txt: $!"; my %data_by_port; while (<DATA>) { my ($port) = (split)[3]; push @{$data_by_port{$port}}, $_; } for my $port (keys %data_by_port) { if ($port ne 'wireless' && @{$data_by_port{$port}} >= ROGUE_THRESHOLD) { for my $line (@{$data_by_port{$port}}) { print $bad $line } } else { for my $line (@{$data_by_port{$port}}) { print $good $line } } } __DATA__ 13 switch-1 111427f2ffff gi1/1/49 13 switch-1 111511614fff gi1/1/49 13 switch-1 11155e45ffff gi1/1/49 13 switch-1 1115fc4753ff gi1/1/49 111 switch-1 11196f977f72 gi1/1/49 111 switch-1 11196fff3728 gi1/1/49 111 switch-1 11196fe74f5f gi1/1/49 111 switch-1 111f56f1fcef gi1/1/1 111 switch-1 111f6123f789 gi1/1/2 111 switch-1 111f6124336f gi1/1/2 111 switch-1 111f61245f94 gi1/1/5 111 switch-1 111f6147eeff gi1/1/2 111 switch-1 111f61896fff gi1/1/2 111 switch-2 211f61896fff wireless 111 switch-2 311f61896fff wireless 111 switch-2 411f61896fff wireless 111 switch-2 511f61896fff wireless 111 switch-2 611f61896fff wireless * http://perldoc.perl.org/strict.html ** http://perldoc.perl.org/warnings.html -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/