You should probably avoid treating the values from your files as numbers.
It is possible, even likely, that the conversion of these values into Perl's internal numeric format would change their values. For example, they may have been truncated (or rounded using one of several different rounding algorithms), from single precision floats. If you then re-interpret them into double precision floats, you will introduce differences that are not there in the original files, or discard differences that are there.
This treats the fields as strings (as human eyes do) until the final decision about the last digits, where they are compared as (integer) numerics. It also takes every opportunity to bail out as early as a difference is found.
#! perl -slw use strict; die "Files differ in length" unless -s( $ARGV[0] ) == -s( $ARGV[ 0 ] ); open FH1, '<', $ARGV[0] or die $!; open FH2, '<', $ARGV[1] or die $!; #my $mismatch = 0; until( eof( FH1 ) || eof( FH2 ) ) { my $line1 = <FH1>; my $line2 = <FH2>; next if $line1 eq $line2; my @line1 = split ' ', $line1; my @line2 = split ' ', $line2; for ( 0 .. $#line1 ) { next if $line1[ $_ ] eq $line2[ $_ ]; next if abs( chop( $line1[ $_ ] ) - chop( $line2[ $_ ] ) ) < 2 and $line1[ $_ ] eq $line2[ $_ ]; die "Files differ at line: $. field: $_\n"; #$mismatch = 1; } } #die "File are different\n" if $mismatch; die "Files have different numbers of lines\n" unless eof( FH1 ) and eof( FH2 ); print "Files are the same\n"; ### Or "files are sufficiently similar" close FH1; close FH2;
Change the second die to warn and uncomment the related mismatch paraphernalia if you want a comprehensive list of the differences.
Output for test files:
C:\test>828506 file1 file2 Files are the same
In reply to Re: A small question on file comparison
by BrowserUk
in thread A small question on file comparison
by pavanvidem
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