Ok monks, I have another thing that I'm trying to do. I have 2 spreadsheets; we'll call them $file1 and $file2. What I'm trying to do is compare the 2 spreadsheets and return as output the lines that are not similar. I tried to use one module called csvdiff.pm and that didn't really do what I wanted and I tried some code that used while and if statements but I couldn't get anything. All I want to do is return the rows that don't match from $file2. So I would return lines 2 and 3 of $file2 from the example below. How do I need to go about accomplishing this? Oh and I forgot to mention the reason those 2 lines matched was because of the IP address within the line. 
$file1 looks like

,Connectors and Reporting Devices,,,Week of 11/16-22,,,,,,

Count,Agent Name,Device Address,Device Host Name,Device Product,Device
+ Vendor,,,1/3/2009,1/4/2009,1/5/2009
2,Syslog,10.255.33.15,name1,Switch,Cisco,,,0,0,0
2,Syslog,10.64.104.13,name2,Pix,Cisco,,,144,143,144
2,Syslog,10.64.11.52,name3,Pix,Cisco,,,2511,2043,2806

and $file2 looks like

Agent Name,Device Address,Device Host Name,Device Product,Device Vendo
+r,Count(Event ID)
Syslog,10.64.104.12,name2,PIX,CISCO,144
Syslog,10.64.104.14,name4,Unix,Unix,46
Syslog,10.64.106.13,name5,PIX,CISCO,144

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