Re: comparing some but not all fields in lists

2008-03-16 Thread David Newman
Jay Savage wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM, David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings. I'm looking to compare two contact lists in csv format, and then print out "here are the records in in Llist only, in Rlist only, and what's in common." I should compare only 3 of the 82 fiel

Re: comparing some but not all fields in lists

2008-03-04 Thread Jay Savage
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM, David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. I'm looking to compare two contact lists in csv format, and > then print out "here are the records in in Llist only, in Rlist only, > and what's in common." > > I should compare only 3 of the 82 fields in each l

Re: comparing some but not all fields in lists

2008-03-04 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
(Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: "Gunnar" == Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gunnar> my ($comp) = /([^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*)/; Gunnar> $Llist{$comp} = $_; These lines scare me. What happens if the regex fails? And if you never expect it to fail, at least add a "die", to p

Re: comparing some but not all fields in lists

2008-03-03 Thread John W. Krahn
David Newman wrote: Greetings. I'm looking to compare two contact lists in csv format, and then print out "here are the records in in Llist only, in Rlist only, and what's in common." I should compare only 3 of the 82 fields in each list. There are differences in some of the other fields that

Re: comparing some but not all fields in lists

2008-03-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Gunnar" == Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gunnar> my ($comp) = /([^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*)/; Gunnar> $Llist{$comp} = $_; These lines scare me. What happens if the regex fails? And if you never expect it to fail, at least add a "die", to prove me wrong. :) -- Ra

Re: comparing some but not all fields in lists

2008-03-03 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
David Newman wrote: Greetings. I'm looking to compare two contact lists in csv format, and then print out "here are the records in in Llist only, in Rlist only, and what's in common." I should compare only 3 of the 82 fields in each list. There are differences in some of the other fields that