I want to ask something and hope that someone can shed some light in my direction. I started writing a script that at the time seemed like it was gonna be a breeze lol. but the deeper i got into the script the more complex i seen that it got. I have two arrays. One array has the md5 directory/all sub directories and filename of the first directory (without . and ..). The second one has the md5 directory/and all its sub directories with the filenames (without . and ..).

what i am trying to do is compare both directories like: 
for my $data0(@array0){
my ($md50, $filepath0, $filename0)= split (/\s+, $data0);

for my $data1(@array1){
my ($md51, $filepath1, $filename1) = split (/\s+/, $data1);

if ($md50 !~ $md51 && $filename0 =~ $filename1){
    make_path($filepath0);
    copy("$filepath0$filename0, $filepath1);
    }
    else{
    #do nothing
    }
  }  
}

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now to the question. i am trying to compare each file in the directories and sub directories of 2 args. but i am only trying to copy the ones that do NOT match and to that particular directory only. both args have different directory trees as well and i think that is the kicker and is why it is confusing me so badly :l i cannot for the life of me figure this out lol. i can get it to copy files but its either all files get copied into all directories, or none. It would be optimum if i could indeed preserve the filepath as well...
what am i doing wrong? ive used strict and warnings and diagnostics, but it is not returning any errors at all, so i am out of options because the script runs and completes, but it will not copied the files.

In reply to File copy based on conditions in two arrays by james28909

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