Hi,

I have an array filled with identification numbers, and an array filled with filenames that are based on those numbers. I have about 8000 files, and about 200 of them must get deleted, and I was trying to write a Perl script to do this.

I have the ID numbers in @ID, and the filenames in @files. I attempted to write a foreach loop that checks each ID against the files, and prints the file that matches the ID. Here is what I have: 

foreach $ID(@ID) {
        chomp $ID;
        if ($ID=~ m/@files/) {
                print @files
        }
}

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Not only does this not do what I would like, it doesn't have any output at all. Would someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks for reading,
-Jonathan

In reply to Check If 2 Arrays Match by facedag

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