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From:
Dave Adams
Date:
March 4, 2002 07:07
Subject:
Can I do this with perl?
Message ID:
00c701c1c38e$a39aad40$584664c3@UTSLAPTOP
Hi there,

I have a problem which I would like to use perl to resolve, however I'm not
sure if it is possible to do. 

I need to scan a file and check some conditions, first if field 9 is
duplicated on 1 or more rows, then I need to check field 10 to see which is
the greater value and then only print the whole row where field 10 is the
greater, if field 9 is not a duplicate then print the whole row.
An example of the data is below.

28525|U2|4CY0|50|6775.15|2002-02-07|10461|321.43|102040724|102040773|
28526|U2|4CY0|25|3571.78|2002-02-07|6107|167.74|102040774|102040798|
28527|U2|4CY0|50|6930.3|2002-02-07|11376|324.12|102040774|102040823|
28528|U2|4CY0|25|4640.28|2002-02-07|4800|217.43|102040824|102040848|
28529|U2|4CY0|50|8432.05|2002-02-07|9023|392.03|102040824|102040873|

Dave

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