As per an earlier suggestion, I have used Text::Diff to work out the diffs between two sets of word arrays but what I need to do is to split the results on the + sign to eventually wrap them up in XML for an AJAX application.
I get the result:
Scrooge never painted out old Marley's name + Nermal never painted out old Marley's name
What I'd like is:
Scrooge never painted out old Marley's name
Nermal never painted out old Marley's name
Is it possible to split on +? If not, can it be swapped and split on that instead? 
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;
use Text::Diff;
use IO::File;

my $diff;
my $dbh;

#Create the strings first
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:dickens:localhost', 'admin', 'pass');
#my ($indexstring) = $dbh->selectrow_array('SELECT sentence FROM seque
+nce');
#my ($additionaltext) = $dbh->selectrow_array('SELECT sentence FROM se
+quence1');

my @indexstring;
my @additionaltext;
my $result;

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT sentence FROM sequence");
$sth->execute;

while (my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array)
    {
     push @indexstring,$result[0];
    }

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT sentence FROM sequence1");
$sth->execute;
while (my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array)
    {
     push @additionaltext,$result[0];
    }


$dbh->disconnect();
################################
#Compare strings or arrays
################################

#Use Text::Diff for arrays.
#Need a regex to get the relevant data out
my @difference = diff \@indexstring, \@additionaltext;
foreach $diff(@difference) {
    my $unequal = split(/+/, $diff);
    print "$unequal\n";
    }

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Is there, perhaps, a better of doing this (though this nearly gives the me the results I'd love)?

In reply to Splitting on + after using Text::Diff by Quicksilver

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