Hello fellow monks!
I am new to your site and I admit I have found many interesting and useful things about Perl here!
I want to do the following:
I have 2 files that may or may not have some different lines
(this I cannot know beforehand).
For example, you may have
FILE1
123
tomas
kelly
345
678
###########
FILE2
123
nick
kelly
459
678

OR
FILE1
123
tomas
kelly
345
678
###########
FILE2
123
tomas
kelly
345
678

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The good news is that the lines in file1 and file2 are equal, that is in line 1 of both files either you will find 123 or 123 (in one file) and something else in the other
What I want to do is read both files, and search to find if there is at least one difference.
I don't care if there are 10 or 100 differences between the 2 files, I just want to see if the files are identical line-by-line or they differ in one line at least.
I tried using diff but it did't work, so I was thinking if there is any quicker way...

In reply to quick and safe way to deal with this? by Anonymous Monk

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