Hello all... this is my first post on PerlMonks. So please mind if any mistakes. I'm trying to match two arrays, the number of elements is different (that is not the problem). The issue is where the elements are technically not similar as all can see but I want to match them.

I have tried the below method alongwith this operator "~~" but I think some type of pattern matching method is required. I am not able to get it. Please let me know if any solution... 

@array1=('adam west', 'daric dalon','tom helic','todd nick','riley rem
+er');
@array2=('adam west 12', 'daric dalon mr.','tom helic (fads)','todd ni
+ck (456)','riley remer','john steve','dim madz 12');
$array1Size=@array1;
$array2Size=@array2;
$count = 0;
for ( $j = 0 ; $j < $array1Size ; $j++ ) 
    {
        for ( $k = 0 ; $k < $array2Size ; $k++ ) 
            {
                if ( $array1[$j] =~ $array2[$k] ) 
                    {
                        do something;
                    }
                    else 
                        {
                        do something;
                        }
          }
  }

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In reply to Matching arrays with different number of elements and element size by Ksonar

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