You have some basic program design problems here.

You are attempting to read the entire file FILE1 for each record of CONTACT. Was that you intention ?

To match "sam" with "Sam", you need to ignore case. The syntax for that would be m/^$name/i. the "i" ignores case.

Depending on how large these files are, and whether or not they are sorted, there are different approaches to solving the problem. Typically, one of the files would be read completely into memory - in this case, store the info in a hash, that you can look up quickly.

Try re-writing using these suggestions, and we can help you get through the next step.

In reply to Re: not able to compare files by NetWallah
in thread not able to compare files by Anonymous Monk

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