Well, you didn't actually say _how_ it wasn't working as expected. But I'll take a stab and assume that the last line in file two is being printed to your result set, when you don't want it to be.

But regardless, this code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
use strict;
use warnings;

my @fileone = qw/123456 123457 123458/;
my @filetwo = ("123456 foo",
        "123456 bar",
        "123457 foobar",
        "123455 this wouldn't be printed to new file"
        );


foreach my $pattern (@fileone) {
    foreach my $line (@filetwo) {
        if ($line =~ /^$pattern/) {
            print $line;
        }
    }
}

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Gives this result: 
123456 foo
123456 bar
123457 foobar

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Which is as expected. You probably need to show us more of your code. I suspect that you're probably missing a chomp somewhere along the line...

Cheers,
Darren :)

In reply to Re: Find partially matching line in file - print that line to another file by McDarren
in thread Find partially matching line in file - print that line to another file by rkmase

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