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From: jorgy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric R. Jorgensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Simple perl question
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Date: 20 Aug 90 20:21:12 GMT
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I have come across the following problem I have been unable to solve
since I am new to perl programming, 

I have input that looks like:

x	1
x	5
x	6
x	7
y	25
y	26

And I would like output like:

x	1,5-7
y	25-26

I would be very appreciative if someone could help me, or at least
point me in the direction of a similar example.

Thanks in advance,
jorgy

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