Looks like you need something like the following: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @compare = (
    ['/dir1/contents/','/dir2/contents','^cob$'],
    ['/dir1/contents/','/dir2/contents','\.ffl$','\.1st$']
);

my ($dir1, $dir2, @r, $regex);
for (@compare) {
    ($dir1, $dir2, @r) = @$_;
    # Load dir info, create hash, compare hash
    # If hash doesn't match...
    $regex = join '|', @r; print "$regex\n";
    # Sort and run through files, ignoring ones that regex matches if 
+regex exists.
    # Print directory and file info for files that don't match between
+ directories
}

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The duplication in your code is in having to run the same pieces of code on many different directories and file names / endings. Create a structure instead that lets you easily store this info and loop through it, and your code can be reduced to a fraction of its previous size.

In reply to Re: File Differences by TedPride
in thread File Differences by TStanley

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