in reply to How can one get the unique words in text files using perl module List::Compare?

The problem is you are not looking for unique words in each file, but for unique words across all the files. Do I understand your requirement correctly?
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %seen; for my $file (@ARGV) { open my $FH, '<', $file or die $!; while (<$FH>) { chomp; s/,\s*$//; push @{ $seen{$_} }, $file; } } for my $string (grep 1 == @{ $seen{$_} }, keys %seen) { print "$string unique in $seen{$string}[0]\n"; }

$ perl 1077045.pl [123].txt cat unique in 1.txt dog unique in 3.txt rat unique in 2.txt

If the word is considered "unique" even if it occurs several times in one file, you might need to use a HoH instead of a HoA.

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Re^2: How can one get the unique words in text files using perl module List::Compare?
by supriyoch_2008 (Monk) on Mar 05, 2014 at 11:10 UTC

    Hi choroba,

    Thanks for your suggestions.