Thanks Sundial. A couple of questions.
I was able to get the hash created and working properly. Now I need to take care of some details. Depending on the type of file that I am using, the SSN may or may not have hyphens in it. How would you strip the hyphens while loading the hash? This is what I have now:
while (<$HRDATA>) {
my ($ssn,$aoid) = split(/","/)[4,2];
$ssnhash{$ssn} = $aoid;
}
Basic I am sure but I am just learning. Secondly, again, depending on file type, the SSN may be in field 2 or 4 of file 2. One file type, where the SSN is in field 2 has a file header at the top. The only way that I can see to programatically know which is which it to query the file line of the file. Once I know that I can tweak my code to load the SSN in the hash from the proper fields. Does that make sense? Any thoughts on a better way? Thanks!!
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