>perl -wMstrict -le "my @change = (1.15, -0.1, 5.4, 1.03, 1.15, -0.241); my @numberofshares = (9999, 400, 200, 300, 500, 240); my %hash; @hash{@change} = @numberofshares; printf qq{%d keys in hash (oops...) \n}, scalar keys %hash; my $sum = 0; while (my($k, $v) = each %hash) { $sum += $v * $k; } print qq{sum == $sum (?)}; " 5 keys in hash (oops...) sum == 1866.16 (?)