I am a newbie trying to Compare files and print the results, files are not the same size. Please help, here is my code my code
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w


use strict;

open (FILE1,"Largedatafile.txt");
open (FILE2,"Smalldatafile.txt");
open (FILE3,"addressfile.txt");


   while(<FILE2>)
   {
        ($var1, $var2, $var3,$var4,$var5)=split(/\t/, $_);
        
        {
           while(<FILE1>)
           {
                ($id1, $id2,$id3)=split(/\t/,$_);
       while(<FILE3>)
           {
                ($citycode, $statecode,$zipcode)=split(/\t/,$_);
        
                if (($id3 != $var3) & ($citycode !=$var5))
                {
                
            print "$var1\tid1\n";    
            
                }
              }  
           }
        }
    }
close (FILE1);
close (FILE2);
close (FILE3);

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