Assuming that when you mean records, you have a single unique id value that is stored in the array, then you can do the usual trick of using a hash as a search mechanism:
my %temphash = map { $_ => 1 } @arrayA;
my @inBbutnotA = grep { !$temphash{ $_ } } @arrayB;
If your record is more complicated, you have have to add another step to break out the unique id for either of these steps, but the idea is still the same.
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Hmm, who hasn't read the FAQ? perlfaq4 has the answer.rdfield | [reply] |
Instead of using arrays just read the text file into a has then you can do something like this.
$hash_b{$sql_entry}++ unless exists $hash_a{$sql_entry}; | [reply]
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