How does that reply address "show precisely how your arrays are created" (see I know what I mean. Why don't you?)? Perhaps you intended to write something like:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $fStr = <<FSTR;
abc
   xyz
FSTR

open my $inFile, '<', \$fStr;
my @array2 = <$inFile>;
my @array1 = ('abc ', 'xyz');
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Hmmm. Is your real question then "How do I clean whitespace from data read from a file?" or something like that? Or do you really want one array with whitespace and one without?

yes..i want to clean whitespaces/new line or any speacial character from array2 and make it comparable to array1

In that case:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 1;

my @array1 = ('foo', 'bar');
my @array2 = (" foo\n", ',bar,');

my @clean = map { s/[\s,]//mg; $_ } @array2;

is_deeply \@clean, \@array1;
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Alter the map to your precise requirements. See also How to ask better questions using Test::More and sample data for future reference.

Addendum: if you don't want or need to keep your "dirty" array you could modify it in-place instead:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 1;

my @array1 = ('foo', 'bar');
my @array2 = (" foo\n", ',bar,');

s/[\s,]//mg for @array2;

is_deeply \@array2, \@array1;
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Addendum 2: Note the reply by AnomalousMonk (++) who correctly points out that the map already modifies @array2 and that using /r will prevent that.

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I am not familiar with Array::Compare, and all of its options, but how about utilizing a "chomp and slurp mode" combination to flatten the file contents? Then the rest of the array prep might look like this:

1. chomp and slurp
2. filter out special characters
3. split and push

just a quick thought... hope it helps.

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