Hello, I have a wierd question. I have 2 perl scripts, they do the exact same thing, except one creates a file called "newsite1.txt" and the other "newsite2.txt". And each one are run on alternating days. newsite1.pl runs on sunday, tuesday, thursday, saturday. What they each do, is read a directory, which has the names of all the cellsites in the nextel system. My boss wants me to create a tool that tells you which cellsite came up over night. So if someone clicks the button today (tuesday) they would get the sites that came up monday night through tuesday morning. Here is a little bit of what the text file looks like:
PHI_R10K_2 
PHI_TDAP_3 
de0040Newark 
de0042Wilmington 
de0053Christana 
de0053Christiana 
de0101Odessa 
de0102Clayton 
de0103Dover 
de0180Claymont 
de0184Wooddale 
de0187Woodcreek 
de0205ChestnutKnoll 
de0267Chapman 
de0314Glasgow 
de0348Millside 
de0371SouthDover

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Only there happens to be about 700 of them. Now, my question is, how can i compare newsite1.txt to newsite2.txt and print the differences with most effenciency? i thought about opening the one file, and comparing every entry against the second file. But, if the second file has more cell names.. then some would get neglected.
Thanks in advance

Dipul

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