Hi, I have 2 short arrays with only words in them. I want to check if a word in the first array occurs in the second array, but I am having some problems.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use utf8;

open (INPUT, "<:utf8", "short.txt") or die "can't open";
open (INPUT2, "<:utf8", "woordelysEng.txt") or die "can't open";
open (OUTPUT, ">output.txt") or die "can't open";  

my @words;
my @EN;

while (<INPUT>)     
       {
            my $word = $_;
            chomp $word;
            @words = split(/ /, $word);     
           

       }
       
while (<INPUT2>)        
    {
        my $word = $_;
        chomp $word;
        @EN = split(/ /, $word);
    }
    
for(my $z = 0; $z <= $#EN; $z++)
    {
        for(my $y = 0; $y <= $#words; $y++)
        {
            if($EN[$z] eq $words[$y])
            {
                print OUTPUT "$EN[$z]\n";
            }
        }
    }
    
    
for(my $z = 0; $z <= $#EN; $z++)
{
    foreach my $correct(@words)
    {
        if ($EN[$z] eq "$correct")
        {
            print "$EN[$z]\n";
        }
    }
}

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I tried 2 different ways of looping through it but without success. Any advice? Here is the 2 text files:

short.txt- the cat ran up the tree the cat the dog then barked at the cat

the cat jumped out of the tree

woordelysEng.txt- the cat dog

It does not print anything to the output file.

In reply to How can you check if a word in a array occur in another array? by PerlVader

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