what the--?! bloody hell, it posted it . . . *grumbles* ok, apparently i accidentally wrote a reply to my post instead of actually posting it and then replying, my bad . . . uhh, that is a reply to this: ok, this should be roughly like what i used. unfortunately, when my other computer died, it took all my files with it, so i don't have the actual script i used. but in tested, this one makes the same mistake. fortunately, i now have two 40GB hds, so i actually have room for back up. :) 
use strict;

open(PLAYLIST, "<test.m3u");
my $dir = 'c:\my files';
opendir(FILES, "$dir");
open (TEST, ">test.txt");
my %playlist;
my @filelist = grep {/\.mp3$/} readdir FILES;
my $song;

while(<PLAYLIST>) {
    chomp;
    if(not(/#/)) {$playlist{$_} = 1}
    }

foreach $song(@filelist) {
    if(!exists $playlist{$song}) {
        print TEST $dir . "\\" . $song . "\n"
        }
    }

closedir FILES;
close PLAYLIST;

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btw, it's kinda been awhile since i used perl, and i don't remember exactly what {$playlist{$_} = 1} does, or how it does it. could someone refresh my memory? yeah, i know, i really should start commenting things

In reply to Re: Re: Re: it's been awhile . . . by ashaman
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