Hello, I'm trying to map two files INPUT1 to INPUT2. I believe that I've made a syntax error somewhere because I'm not retrieving any ouput; yet I know that there are IDs in INPUT2 (via $id2) that exist in INPUT1 (via $id_1b).
Also, is there a general, more efficient, way to map files that contain similar identifier strings? Thank you for any advice, David foreach $line2 (<INPUT2>) { ($id2,$remainder) = split(/\t/,$line2,2); foreach $line1 (<INPUT1>) { ($id_1a,$id_1b) = split (/\t/,$line1,2); chomp($id_1b); if ($id2 eq $id_1b) { print OUTPUT "$id2\t$id_1a\t$remainder"; } else { next; } } } __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]