so you are wanting to split up the file in chunks and compare against one another. sounds very familiar with some stuff i do. why not just split up the file into chunks manually and check it? 
open $hddfile, '<whateverfile'; 
binmode it;

my $length = -s $hddfile;
my $chunks = $length/ #divided by how ever many chunks you want
my $num = #make this to the amount you divided the file into
my $counter = 0;

my $name = whatever;

foreach (1 .. $num){
    open $temp, '>', "$name$counter";  #should split up file based on 
+whatever size you want
    read $hddfile, my $buf, $chunks;   #someone correct me it im wrong
+ haha
    print $temp, $buf;
$counter++;
}

open $cmpfile, '<file to compare it with';
binmode it;

my $length = -s $cmpfile;
my $chunks = $length/ #divided by how ever many chunks you want

my $num = #match to the division number
my $counter = 0;
my $name = whatever;

foreach (1 .. $num){
    open $temp, '>', "$name$counter";  #should split up file based on 
+whatever size you want
    read $hddfile, my $buf, $chunks;   #someone correct me it im wrong
+ haha
    print $temp, $buf;
$counter++
}

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then compare them with an sha or md5 checksum tool :) tho this might not be working code, but to me it is a little easier to understand. if it were me i would split the files up into seperate folders in a shared root directory. then compare them.

In reply to Re: Foreach/While - Why does this run AFTER that? by james28909
in thread Foreach/While - Why does this run AFTER that? by CalebH

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