Ok, first off, you don't want a while loop inside of another while loop for this problem. I'd start by loading all of your people on the schedule into a hash: 
my %contacts;
while (<FILE1>){
    my ($person, $trash) = split(/\s/, $_, 2);
    $contacts{$person} = 0;
}

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Next, read in your contacts and determine if they exist in your schedule: 
while (<CONTACT>){
    my ($person, $extra) = split(/\s/, $_, 2);
    print FILE3 "$person\t$extra" unless exists $contacts{$person};
}

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Of course, if somebody appears twice in your contacts file, they'll print out twice too. While you're at it, be sure to use strict and warnings and be nice, remember to close your filehandles. You don't need to chomp() anything since you're going to want the carriage return when you print to file.

- - arden.

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

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