Hi, I have a bit of script that's supposed to compare two files which are fairly identical, at the moment it's outputting the whole contents of the second file though and I really have no idea why.

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Compare;
use Text::Diff;
use lib "E:\\Program Files (x86)\\Traverse\\lib\\perl";
use lib "C:\\Perl";

my $expect = `expect.expect`;

chdir $ARGV[0];
rename "output.new","output.old";

open DIFF, ">alarm.log" or die $!;
open OUTPUT, ">output.new" or die $!;

print OUTPUT "$expect\n";
if (compare("1.log","2.log") == 0) {
    print "They're equal\n";
} else {
    print "They are NOT equal\n";
    print DIFF "------------------------------------------------------
+-------------------------------------------------------------\n";    
+            
    print DIFF "The script has identified the following changes:\n\n";
+   
    my $diff = diff "output.new", "output.old", { STYLE => "Unified" ,
+ OUTPUT => \*DIFF }; 
    print DIFF "------------------------------------------------------
+-------------------------------------------------------------\n\n";  
+         
    close(DIFF);
}

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If I've missed anything glaringly obvious then please let me know, I can add the files to compare if needed but like I said, they're identical apart from 2 or three lines.

Thanks

In reply to Text::Diff help by whittick

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