This should work. Don't forget to substitute your filename for the one I used. 
use strict;
my @file;
my @report = qw(sqltable mike_test sarak_mike);
open INFILE, "<mms_tableload.txt";  

## The following statement stuffs the lowercased first "word" of each 
+record into @file.
push @file, lc((split)[0]) foreach (<INFILE>);

my $i = 0;
foreach (@file) {
   print "\@file[", $i++, "] = '$_'\n";
}
print "\n\n";

my %in_file = map{$_ =>1} @file;
my $all_match = 1;
foreach (@report) {
   if (! exists $in_file{$_}) {
      $all_match = 0;
      print "\@report value: '$_' is not in \@file.\n";
   }
}

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Where the data file for @file looks like this: 
Mike table loaded successfully 2001-11-26 00:34:58.61 with 284734 reco
+rds.
MiKe_Test table loaded sucessfully 2001-11-26 01:31:08.88 with 498 rec
+ords.
sarak_Mike table loaded successfully 2001-11-26 01:37:07.85 with 165 r
+ecords.
Inv_hdr table loaded successfully 2001-11-26 01:45:04.79 with 165321 r
+ecords.

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The output: 
@file[0] = 'mike'
@file[1] = 'mike_test'
@file[2] = 'sarak_mike'
@file[3] = 'inv_hdr'


@report value: 'sqltable' is not in @file.

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--Jim

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: comparing two arrays by jlongino
in thread comparing two arrays by jdelmedi

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