On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Martin Bower wrote: > I have 2 hashes, one with 10,000 entries and the other with 5,000, and > these are loaded from a database table(sybase). > > %hash1 contains values such as "111.666.fff.jjj.ccc.222" > %hash2 contains values such as "111.666.fff.___.ccc.222" (where the ___ > can eixst in any position)
This is a job for a tree. S. -- Shevek http://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/
