[Perl] merge DB problem

[Shlomo Yona]

Hello.

Your data always looks like 
/[a-z][a-z]/
(e.g. aa or bb etc.)?

-- 
Shlomo Yona
shlomo at cs.haifa.ac.il
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 Yossi.Itzkovich at lightscapenet.com wrote:

> I have two files with many records with the format  of :
> 
> Name N
> valLine#1
> valLine#2
> ...
> valLine#N
> 
> 
> N indicates how many following lines this records has.
> 
> I need to merge 2 such files, which is prety simple using 2 hashes,  but I
> want to add records from file1 (that are missing in file2) in the same
> order/position to file2.
> 
> For example:
> 
> File1 is:
> a 2
> aa
> aa
> b 1
> bb
> c 1
> cc
> 
> File 2 is:
> a 2
> aa
> aa
> c 1
> cc
> d 1
> dd
> 
> 
> I want record "b" from file 1 to be added after record "a".  How can I
> change the original solution (using 2 hashes and merge and checking
> existance of keys) to suit this one too? I need a simple solution as
> possible.