Read the files line-by-line, split each pair of lines along whitespace, compare the relevant field, and output the lines if they differ:

#!/usr/bin/perl use feature qw/say/; use warnings; use strict; open my $file1, "<", "test1.txt" or die "Could not open first file: $! +\n"; open my $file2, "<", "test2.txt" or die "Could not open second file: $ +!\n"; while(my $line1 = <$file1>) { my $line2 = <$file2>; chomp ($line1, $line2); my ($key1, $num1, $str1) = split /\s+/, $line1; my ($key2, $num2, $str2) = split /\s+/, $line2; if($str1 ne $str2) { say $line1; say $line2; } } close $file1 or die "Could not close first file: $!\n"; close $file2 or die "Could not close second file: $!\n";

There's bound to be shorter, more idiomatic ways of achieving the same thing, but since your userpage indicates you're still new to Perl, you may find this the most instructive/useful.

On an unrelated side note, could you edit your post to use <code> tags for your sample data? See the following nodes for more information on formatting etc.:


In reply to Re: Sorting By Column by AppleFritter
in thread Sorting By Column by Roguehorse

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