You want a hash indexed by the token you want to match. You might as well store the complete lines as the hash value. Then output the values which have more than one entry. (Untested) code:
my %routes; while (my $line = <>) { # Grab the route my ($key) = ($line =~ /^(\S+)\s/); # Make sure we have an array ref for this key $route{$key} ||= []; # And add this line push @{$route{$key}}, $line; } foreach my $value (values %routes) { if (@$values > 1) { print @$values; print "\n"; } }
Something like that anyway.

In reply to Re: Searching for two lines that begin with the same string by jbert
in thread Searching for two lines that begin with the same string by tgrossner

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