Re: simple question

run command:
perldoc perldsc


use strict;
use warnings;
are two pragmas, strict will force you to declare variables with my
warnings will produce useful warnings

please see
perldoc -f use


On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Alex Goor <a_goor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

thank you so much for your fast answer.

what do you mean by perldoc perldsc? how do i get that?

what is "use strict" and "use warnings"

sorry to bother you and thanks again!

----- Original Message ----
From: "Li, Jialin" <jialinli1981@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Alex Goor <a_goor@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:43:47 PM
Subject: Re: simple question

you should use hash, see more detail
perldoc perldsc


use strict;
use warnings;
my %hash_symbol;

while (my $message = <>) {
++$hash_symbol( substr($message,17,6) );
}

my @sybolset = keys %hash_symbol;



On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Alex Goor <a_goor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i have a data set of stock orders and i want to count the number of
unique stock symbols in the set.

i have turned the data set into an array and based on the message spec,
i can identify the stock symbols. but i don't know how to make sure i'm
only counting unique ones.

i had thought to do an if statement along the lines of


$symbolset = "@symbolset";
if $symbolset !~ /substr($message,17,6)/ #if the array doesn't contain
the new symbol
{
#then add it to the array
push (@symbolset, "substr($message,17,6)

}

substr($message,17,6) is the symbol info within each line of the array
of the data set.

the problem is that that doesn't work!

does anyone have any ideas how to do this?


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