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(tye)Re3: Comparison Of Files

by tye (Sage)
on Dec 05, 2000 at 21:54 UTC ( [id://45038]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Comparison Of Files

My first idea was a "merge sort" (well, at least the "merge" part of it). Luckilly you say that the files are already sorted so this is easy. But I still don't think it is as easy as extending what gaspodethewonderdog came up with (since you said in the chatterbox that you wanted both additions and deletions).

sub compare { my( $old, $new )= @_; open OLD, "< $old" or die "Can't read $old: $!\n"; open NEW, "< $new" or die "Can't read $new: $!\n"; my %old; while( <OLD> ) { chomp; $old{$_}++; } close OLD; my @new; while( <NEW> ) { chomp; push @new, $_ if delete $old{$_}; } close NEW; my @old= sort keys %old; print "New sites:\n\t", join("\n\t",@new), $/; print "Old sites:\n\t", join("\n\t",@old), $/; }

Then use Alabanach's idea for deciding which order to compare the files in.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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