file1

Beckham

Ronaldo

file2

Beckham Beckham_human

Ronaldo Ronaldo_spain

Ronaldo Ronaldo_brazil

Beckham Beckham_manch

Zidane Zidane_Fran

Rooney Rooney_Eng

Output shud be

Beckham 2

Ronaldo 2

 !usr|bin|perl -w

open(FILE1,"file1");
@array1=<FILE1>;
open(FILE2,"file2");
@array2=<FILE2>;
close(FILE1);
close(FILE2);

foreach $code(@array1)
{
        foreach $line(@array2)
        {
         
         chomp($code);
        
        @array2 =~ /$code/;
        $x += @array2;
                
}
}

print "$x\n";

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