On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Benjamin Florin wrote: > foreach my $word (keys %words) > { > $words_stems{$stemmer->stem($word)} += $words{$word}; > } > > foreach my $idea (@ideas) > { > my $idea_stem = $stemmer->stem( $idea ); > print "$idea ($idea_stem)\n"; > print $words_stems{$idea_stem}."\n"; > } A number of other people in other venues have suggested similar things -- pre-process the hash of stems. I will go with this. Resolved. Thank you. internet++ -- Eric Morgan