Thank you very much for your input, it has helped me to understand the methodology. I am quite new at this and can't seem to leave it alone unless I understand it. My question, if I may be a little more specific, I am dealing with a situation where I need to action something if for example a file with following contents; sqltable table loaded successfully with 282873 records. mike_test table loaded successfully with 282873 records. sarak_mike table loaded successfully with 282873 records. compares to a hard coded array @report=("sqltable", "mike_test ", "sarak_mike"); I need to check an array containing the file input @file to see whether @file contains at least all the contents of @report. Your help is greatly appreciated.

In reply to Re: Re: comparing two arrays by jdelmedi
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