Hum... Sounds like homework to me. It would be better if you provided your code... 
open F, "file1" or die "Problem with file1";
open G, "file2" or die "Problem with file2";

@file1 = map { (split /\s+/, $_)[0]; } <F>;
@file2 = map { (split /\s+/, $_)[0]; } <G>;

while ($coord2 = shift @file2) {
    $coord1 = shift @file1;
    push @result, $coord1 - $coord2;
    unshift @file1, $coord1;
}

open H, "> result.txt" or die "Unable to open result.txt";
print H join ("\n", @result);

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Warning : this code is untested.

update : changed a indice error : 2 -> 0. Now the code is tested.

HTH

--
zejames

In reply to Re: hash or nest loop by zejames
in thread hash or nest loop by Anonymous Monk

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