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in reply to Re: (another) HoH question
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Thanks for your answers!

I had a vague sense that something was blocking either the level-1 assignments or level-3 assignments. Data::Dumper certainly cleared that up (I had never used this before, and this will become a favorite.)

What I'm trying to do is use a hash to do a hash to merge two sets:

Set 1: I have a text file establishing the universe of accepted values:
abc 123 abc 456 abc 789 xyz 456 Hash: 123->abc 456->abc 456->xyz 789->abc
Set 2: A set of values pointing to the hash. There may be multiple recs pointing to a hash rec (that's OK, as I just need to know of the existence of one). There maybe hash records that no one uses.
xxx ==> 456->abc xxx ==> 789->abc yyy ==> 456->abc yyy ==> 456->abc (a dup) zzz ==> 123->abc Resulting hash 123->abc->zzz 456->abc->xxx 456->abc->yyy 456->xyz 789->abc->xxx
I could just hash the second set, but I won't get the non-use ones like 456->xyz.

I've tried building the first hash and using arrays for the latter hash, but it runs rather slowly from all the repeated scans.

Suggestions appreciated.