Dear Monks, I created a hash array out of my first file (File 1) and wrote the code like this:- File 1 looks like this:- John 10 Mathew 16 Andrew 27 #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my %href; my $fn = <>; open(FH, "$fn") || die "Cannot open file"; while () { chomp($_); $href{$1} = $2 if $_ =~ /(\S+)\s+(\S+)/; } while (my ($key, $value) = each(%href)) { print $key. ", ". $value."\n"; } Okkkk. Now I have a 1.2 GB file thats I need to parse and print my results based on my hash values and keys. File 2 Looks like this :- File 2:- >John 40 34 40 40 40 40 17 40 40 35 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 20 40 40 40 30 40 40 40 40 40 40 37 40 40 40 40 40 25 40 >Mathew 40 40 44 40 40 40 40 50 40 40 40 40 50 40 40 40 40 40 6 40 40 45 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 29 40 40 40 6 40 >Andrew 40 40 40 40 39 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 35 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 27 40 40 40 40 40 40 33 40 40 40 40 4 40 40 ----------------------- END -------------------- Now what I need to do is suppose John in File 1 has value 10. So in File 2 if only John record at the position 10 has the value >= 20 I need to take it right and print it. Since John Record at 10th position = 35 which is greater than 20 so I have to print my result as:- Result File:- John 10 35. Thanks