Hello lonnie,

I'm not sure that I completely understand your example. The data in GoodFile.txt and BadFile.txt differ on line 2, so I would expect that difference to show up in Output.txt. However, in your example it does not.

Here is some code that uses Algorithm::Diff to calculate the diff, with some help from Path::Tiny to get the file contents.

This code,

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Path::Tiny;
use Algorithm::Diff qw/diff/;

my @lines1 = path('GoodFile.txt')->lines;
my @lines2 = path('BadFile.txt')->lines;

my $diff = Algorithm::Diff->new( \@lines1, \@lines2 );


while( $diff->Next() ){
    next if $diff->Same();
    print $diff->Items(2), "\n";
}
exit;
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gives the following output:

This section is the description of the animal bla bla lbas.....bla bla
+ lbas.....
Amimal, cat, 3, 4, YELLOW LEG 3, HIGH 'this is a cattt 1
This section is the description of the animal bla bla lbas.....bla bla
+ lbas blaaaal........
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UPDATE: The OP made edits to their node, and removed their input data. Here is the input data that I used for my code example (which the OP had provided in the first version of their post).

GoodFile.txt

Amimal, cat, 1, 4, YELLOW HAIR 3, HIGH 'this is a cattt 1
This section is the description of the animal bla bla lbas.....
Amimal, dog, 2, 4, BLACK HEAD 1, HIGHf'this is a doggg 2
This section is the description of the animal bla bla lbas.....
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BadFile.txt

Amimal, cat, 1, 4, YELLOW HAIR 3, HIGH 'this is a cattt 1
This section is the description of the animal bla bla lbas.....bla bla
+ lbas.....
Amimal, cat, 3, 4, YELLOW LEG 3, HIGH 'this is a cattt 1
This section is the description of the animal bla bla lbas.....bla bla
+ lbas blaaaal........
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