in reply to how to compare 2 array

I would suggest making an hash from one array and testing that against the other (its a lot faster than what i could figure out with arrays).
# @array1 and @array2 are what are tested my %test; map {$test{$_}=undef} @array1; my @result; foreach (@array2) { push (@result,$_) if (exists($test{$_})); }