Re: help with nearly identical hash keys

2003-02-25 Thread Katy Brownfield
Here's a simpler example that contains some tools that might be useful to you. (Sorry for the lazy hash declarations.) If you explain the bigger picture, you might get suggestions for data structures that can be manipulated more simply. Katy my %one = qw(_cat peach _dog apple _mouse apricot

Re: help with nearly identical hash keys

2003-02-25 Thread Lance
something like: foreach my $key( keys %hashA ){ if( $hashB{$key}){ print"do the dance of joy, duplicate key found" } } should do the trick. "Aimal Pashtoonmal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello people, > > Can any one please help me. I have 2 hashes, hashA a

RE: help with nearly identical hash keys

2003-02-25 Thread Aimal Pashtoonmal
Hello people, Can any one please help me. I have 2 hashes, hashA and hashB, the keys in both cases, are made up of a mixture of numbers and words etc. But the keys are differnt so I presume I cannot use if exits or if defined. Is there anyway of check to see if the words and numbers making up the