Hi, I have been making an Online Assignment Submission System mostly in PHP for my Final Year Project. The system must check for similarities in submitted assignments. Basically I want to read in 2 files compare them and return the number of identical sentences. I have just started learning PERL few days ago, here is my code so far.... Thanks for any help, shouldn't be too difficult? 
#!/Perl/bin/perl.exe

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";


$projectA = (OPEN, c:\projecta.txt);

$projectB = (OPEN, c:\projectb.txt);

$MatchCount = 0;

@sentencesA = split(/\./, $projectA);

@sentencesB = split(/\./, $projectB);

$arrLenA = scalar @sentencesA;

$arrLenB = scalar @sentencesB;

for ($z=0;$z<=$arrLenA;$z++){

    for ($i=0;$i<=$arrLenB;$i++){
    
        if $sentencesA[$i] == $setencesB[$z]{
            $MatchCount++;
        }
    }
}
return $MatchCount;

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In reply to compare 2 files and return the number of similar sentences by barrymcv

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