Hi Guys,
I am a QA trying to use perl to achieve following:
I have 2 files, both contain test names (contains .tst), and some more lines with other details for each test. I want to find out test name entries common to both files, and store it in array to be used later.
I can do this in Unix using grep -Fx. But it fails in windows as hamilton grep does not have this option. I wish to achieve this in perl so that it will run ok everywhere.
code snippet:
$file1 = "./data/list1.txt";
$file1 = "./data/list2.txt";
@common_lines = `grep -Fx -f $file1 $file2 | grep .tst`;

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I need help with perl code to fill in @common_lines.

contents of list1 could be like : 
test1.tst
not_run
test3.tst
time:2 sec
test6.tst
time:2 sec

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contents of list2 could be like : 
test2.tst
time:3 sec
test3.tst
time:6 sec
test1.tst
time:5 sec

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...upto 100000 entries.
so then @common_lines should contain {test1.tst, test3.tst, ...}
Any help / suggestion is appreciated!

In reply to Extract common lines from 2 files by great_riyaz

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