Please tell us more about your input files.
  • Do they both have EXACTLY the same segments? What do we do if not?
  • Are the segments always in the same order in both files?
  • Do you know the segment names (or even the number of segments) in advance?
  • How many differences do you expect to find in a pair of very large files?
  • Your sample data has very short records. Is this typical?
  • What is the typical (and max) number of records in one segment?
  • How can we always tell a segment name from a data record?
  • Is there anything else you know which might help us?
    • Bill

    In reply to Re^5: Need to have perl script to compare two txt files and print difference along with under which segment the difference is by BillKSmith
    in thread Need to have perl script to compare two txt files and print difference along with under which segment the difference is by User_04271983

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