this is probably a easy questions but I have two files file1 with about 490,000 numbers and file2 with about 24,000. file2s 24,000 exists in the file1 with 490,000. i want to take these out of file of file1. that would leave 464,000 in file1. how would i do this? here is what ive tried. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict; 

open(FILE1, "num_consol.orig");
open(FILE2, "num_status_43.out");
open(OUT, ">>new_num.lst");

for $file1 (<FILE1>){
    chomp $file1;
    open(FILE2, "num_status_43.out");
    for file2 (<FILE2>){
        chomp $file2;
        if ($file1 ne '$file2'){
            $cnt++;<br>
            print OUT "$file1\n";    
        }            
    }
}
close OUT;

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