Hello Monks! I got some help a while back but need a little more. I have two CSV files and I'm trying to see if any data matches. I started by matching a line, got that to work, then got text in a line in a CSV file (separated by commas) to match but in every case in these files it's not a 1:1 match meaning I need to match a phrase like "blue" with something like "the blue water". My data sources have hundreds of lines and several entries separated by commas in each line. Please find the code below. I tried messing around with index on the match but couldn't get anything to work. Please find the code below and thanks in advance for the assistance!

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use Text::CSV;

my ($f1, $f2) = qw{1.csv 2.csv};
my %f1_values;
my $csv = Text::CSV::->new;

get_f1_data($f1, $csv, \%f1_values);
parse_f2_data($f2, $csv, \%f1_values);

sub get_f1_data {
    my ($file, $csv_obj, $f1_values) = @_;

    open my $fh, '<', $file;

    while (my $row = $csv_obj->getline($fh) ) {
        push @{$f1_values{$_}}, $row for @$row;
    }

    return;
}

sub parse_f2_data {
    my ($file, $csv_obj, $f1_values) = @_;

    open my $fh, '<', $file;

    while (my $row = $csv_obj->getline($fh) ) {
        my $matches = 0;

        print 'In line: ';
        $csv_obj->say(\*STDOUT, $row);

        for my $value (@$row) {
            next unless exists $f1_values->{$value};
            ++$matches;
            print "  $value found in:\n";

            for my $line (@{$f1_values->{$value}}) {
                print '    ';
                $csv_obj->say(\*STDOUT, $line);
            }
        }

        print "  No matches found\n" unless $matches;
    }

    return;
}

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In reply to match a portion of a string from a file by Anonymous Monk

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