Merlyn I have tested your sample code and I am now having an issue that I return no data. I would assume this should be returned to STDOUT but when ran like so

[root@nscache2 tmp] 115# ./compare1.pl db.bind1 db.bind2
file1 and not file2:
file2 and not file1:
[root@nscache2 tmp] 116#
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I see nothing returned. Do you have any idea as to why this might be?? Here is my new code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

# shift(@ARGV);
my %found_in;
while (<>) {
#  $found_in{$_} .= $ARGV;
   $found_in{$_}{$ARGV}++;
}
print "file1 and not file2:\n";
print grep { $found_in{$_} eq "file1" } keys %found_in;
print "file2 and not file1:\n";
print grep { $found_in{$_} eq "file2" } keys %found_in;

exit;
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Thanks in advanced for any help. -Sunadmn

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