Re: vlookup by perl instead of excel

2006-02-02 Thread Hal
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:52 -0800, Sanjay Chandriani wrote: > Hi, > > Ok, so I see my question was unclearly posed. Here's what I want to do: > > I have two tab-delimited text files. > > File one: > column 1: UNIQUE identifiers (about 40,000), one identifier per line. > column 2: some desc

Re: vlookup by perl instead of excel

2006-02-02 Thread Sanjay Chandriani
Hi, Ok, so I see my question was unclearly posed. Here's what I want to do: I have two tab-delimited text files. File one: column 1: UNIQUE identifiers (about 40,000), one identifier per line. column 2: some description of the identifier (let's say, red, green or blue). For example,

Re: vlookup by perl instead of excel

2006-02-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Sanjay Chandriani wrote: > I am a perl newbie, so pardon my question if it is super easy. I used > to routinely use Microsoft excel to do my vlookup's on a PC. > Recently, I got a new Apple computer and the vlookup function on Mac's > excel is unbearably slow. I often do

vlookup by perl instead of excel

2006-02-02 Thread Sanjay Chandriani
Hi, I am a perl newbie, so pardon my question if it is super easy. I used to routinely use Microsoft excel to do my vlookup's on a PC. Recently, I got a new Apple computer and the vlookup function on Mac's excel is unbearably slow. I often do vlookup's for a column of identifiers that is 40K lo