OK again I have two files, scanned.txt and importtodb.csv. both contain data separated by commas and the first item on each list is a machine name,

first I want tofind the common machine names in both and then make a new file of comma delimited values made up of items from each. ie

fileA
A,B,C,D

fileB
A,E,F,G,H

New File (fileC)
A,B,D,G
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Here is the code I currently have and am having a hrd time getting past this point...

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my %scanned=();
my %import=();
my @LIST=();
open(SCAN, "scan3.txt") || die "$!\n";
while (<SCAN>) {
        my ( $machine, $luser, $hacked, $privel, undef ) =
                split(/,/,$_);
        $scanned{$machine}=[ $luser, $hacked, $privel ];
}
close (SCAN);

open(IMPORT, "importtodb.csv") || die "$!\n";
while (<IMPORT>) {
        my ( $machine, $user, undef, undef, undef, undef, $locale, und
+ef ) =
                split(/,/,$_);
        $import{$machine}=[ $user, $locale ];
}
close (IMPORT);

foreach my $machine (keys(%scanned)) {
        if(exists($scanned{$machine})) {
                push(@LIST, $machine);
        }
}
foreach my $item(@LIST){
        print "$item\n";
}
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The actual new file Ill need will contain

$machine,$luser,$user,$hacked,$locale
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• Considered by gmax: EDIT - reparent under searching two files
• 2005-01-02 Unconsidered by Arunbear: This is a different question from the one in searching two files, so reparenting is not appropriate
• 2005-01-02 Janitored by Arunbear - removed pre tags around question text

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