Hi All,
  I've been searching CPAN for a solution but with no luck. Data::Compare will compare the 2 but only give me a true/false as to if they match or not.
I need a new data structure returned that represents the differences between the two. Before I go ahead and write one (probably upload to CPAN as well) does anyone know of something that already exists?


Lyle

Update: I started to write a module, when coming up with a name I came across Data::Diff. Which looked like exactly what I needed, but unfortunately on testing it doesn't maintain the order or arrays. Such as it would class [1,2,3] and [3,2,1] the same.

In reply to Compare/Diff on nested data structures by cosmicperl

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