The remaining issue will be that 1.10.l0 also matches lines that match 1.10.1040 To resolve this try something like the following
use strict; use warnings; open(my $data_1 ,"<", "data1.dat"); my %stubs; while (<$data_1>){ chomp; $stubs{$_}=0; } close $data_1; open(my $data_2 ,"<", "data2.dat"); while (<$data_2>){ chomp; for my $stub (reverse sort keys %stubs){ if ($_=~ /\Q$stub\E/){ $stubs{$stub}++; last } } } for my $stub (sort {$stubs{$a} <=> $stubs{$b}} (keys %stubs)){ printf "%-10s: %d\n",$stub, $stubs{$stub}; } __OUTPUT__ 1.10.220 : 1 1.10.1040 : 1 1.10.10 : 3 1.10.150 : 3
By using the reverse sort on the keys of %stubs you can guarantee a "longest match only"

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In reply to Re: help requested with collating data from two files by Utilitarian
in thread help requested with collating data from two files by Angharad

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