Hello
jjohhn ,
This might be a little 'quick and dirty' but it does what you want, using a hash :
use strict ;
use warnings ;
my @file1 = ( 'A1|dog|', 'A2|cat|','A3|bird|' ) ;
my @file2 = ( 'A1|Fido|','A2|Fluffy|','A3|Tweety|') ;
my %rez ;
foreach my $it (@file1) {
my @input = split /\|/ , $it ;
$rez{$input[0]} = join "|" ,"", @input[1,] ;
}
foreach my $it (@file2) {
my @input = split /\|/ , $it ;
$rez{$input[0]} .= join "|" ,"", @input[1,] ;
}
print $_, $rez{$_}, "\n" foreach ( sort keys %rez ) ;
Hope this helps :)
zlr_