Ouch! Not sure what that was supposed to mean either, I was in a little of a rush and just typed the program into the input form; my apologies. Here is a more 'refined' version of what I meant: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open FILE, 'file.1.dat';
my $hist = {map{ chomp; $_ => 1 } @{[<FILE>]}};
close FILE;

open FILE, 'file.2.dat';
while ( my $line = <FILE> ) {
     chomp( $line );
     my ( $file, $account, @other ) = split( /\t/, $line );
     next if ( exists( $hist->{$account} ) );
     print "$account:\t$file\n";
}
close FILE;

exit;
__END__

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My apologies for the confusion again, and Good Luck!!

---hA||ta----
print map{$_.' '}grep{/\w+/}@{[reverse(qw{Perl Code})]} or die while ( 'trying' );

In reply to Re^3: removing same entries between 2 files by wazzuteke
in thread removing same entries between 2 files by sbp

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