in reply to Merge two files with similar column entries
I'll attempt to give some big hints..
I would suggest a HashOfArray (HoA) for the data structure. Each name is a hash key that points to an array of "monthly data"
If a user name doesn't appear in the %Spreadsheet hash table, then create a new "blank" entry with 12 zeroes for the months - I just used 4 months to demo the technique.
I would suggest a HashOfArray (HoA) for the data structure. Each name is a hash key that points to an array of "monthly data"
If a user name doesn't appear in the %Spreadsheet hash table, then create a new "blank" entry with 12 zeroes for the months - I just used 4 months to demo the technique.
Your file format is space separated. I didn't use the most efficient technique, but it is a tool for your toolbox and it is straight-forward.
I used Perl "here-docs" to represent the 2 files. That changes the code a bit.
have fun and good luck!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dump qw(pp); my %Month2Index = (January => 0, Febuary =>1, March =>2); my $january =<<END; #filename January A. Paul 300004 Jason 600000 Mayur Pandey 40000 Kelly H 459000 Ryan M 349000 END my $march =<<END; #filename March Senthl V R 600000 Mayur Pandey 40000 Kelly H 459000 Pratap S 349000 A. Paul 300004 END my %spreadsheet; # real code would have a file name which # states the month - I embedded the file name # into the heredoc variable for this example # a Perl variable can be opened just like a file # for reading (or even perhaps writing) # foreach my $fileref (\$january, \$march) { open my $file, '<', $fileref or die "$!"; my $comment = <$file>; #first line - throw away in real thing my $month_name = (split ' ',$comment)[-1]; my $month_index = $Month2Index{$month_name}; process_monthly_file ($file, $month_index); } sub process_monthly_file { my ($file, $month_index) = @_; while (<$file>) { s/^\s*//; #remove leading spaces # this is a space separated format, but we # want the last column and all of the columns # before that should be "squished into one column" # one way is to reverse the line, limit the # split and then reverse again. my $reversed = reverse $_; my ($data, $name) = split (' ', $reversed,2); # note: the split does an implicit "chomp" $data = reverse $data; $name = reverse $name; # if this name not seen before, create a new # hash entry with a blank array, here just 4 # columns (jan,feb,mar,april) $spreadsheet{$name} ||= [0,0,0,0]; #or perhaps... $spreadsheet{$name} ||= [qw(NA NA NA NA)]; #now enter the data into correct column # @{$spreadsheet{$name}}[$month_index] = $data; } } print pp \%spreadsheet; __END__ prints: { "A. Paul" => [300004, 0, 300004, 0], Jason => [600000, 0, 0, 0], "Kelly H" => [459000, 0, 459000, 0], "Mayur Pandey" => [40000, 0, 40000, 0], "Pratap S" => [0, 0, 349000, 0], "Ryan M" => [349000, 0, 0, 0], "Senthl V R" => [0, 0, 600000, 0], }
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