JStrider

match, when I run your script on the small dataset I just get the output

"142 ; 207 ad2d 530; 207 ad2d 530 2"

thanks for all the help, its really appreciated. do you have any good online tutorials for perl that I can check out, I can follow the logic well enough, but the syntax just seems weird to me.

looks like my partners script has problems with some locations where there is only one userid and it doesnt get all the dashes...

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