Hi, Thank you for getting back to me on my problem. I tried inputting your code into a separate file and compiling and I keep getting the following error and I don't know what it means: 
 Global symbol "$tables_db_list_file" requires explicit package name a
+t ./playFunction.pl line 15.
Execution of ./playFunction.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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-I saw where you had in two parts of the program and I didn't know if it needed to be TWO different file handles or what. The way I have my program currently running is I call a file called counter15.pl that does lots of stuff (pulling SQL statements, performing various calculations and the SQL files that I separated the SQL statements into, pulling database joins etc.) The last thing I did in my program was I wrote code in which a file that contained a list of ONLY TABLES (not with DB name) was loaded. Then I parsed EACH of my SQL files to see if any instances of the tables were in any of the SQL files. If they were, then I just printed the table name that was found. NOW, I have a list of all the tables names in a separate file called, tableUsed.txt and what I need is a list of table names ALONG WITH the database name. YES, to answer your question in the DB & table name file, the DB & table name are separated by a (space). I just want to eventually have a FINAL file that contains a listing of the databases and table names in which I will upload into an excel spreadsheet. I am VERY new to PERL, infact they made me learn it in a week, therefore I am no expert by any means but the code you have given me should work but again I have that error and I don't know why. Please get back to me when you have time. Thank you so very much for your help. Dan

In reply to Re^2: comparing 2 files by dhudnall
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