This is something I wrote a while back to compare two files line by line. It reports the line number and prints that line in both files, or prints no difference found. It might be useful to you...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
use CGI ':standard';


my $txt1 = "/path/public_html/test/txt1.txt";
my $txt2 = "/path/public_html/test/txt2.txt";
my $count;
my $item;
open FH, "$txt1" or die $!;
my @all = <FH>;
close FH;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

open PAGE, "$txt2" or die $!;

foreach my $line (<PAGE>)  {
    $count++;
    $item = shift (@all);
    if ($line ne $item) {
        print "line no:  $count<br>
        $line<br>
        $item<br>";
        }    else {
        print "No differences found<br>";    
    }    
}

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In reply to Re: Comparing two file in Arrays by jonnyfolk
in thread Comparing two file in Arrays by MrMadScience

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