Assignments are given to 'rob in' what you have been taught or to provoke you to read more or reserach further, asking questions.
I will give a working code (one of the several ways), but with some lines replaced with comments. Find, understand and fill in the blank spaces and you have your assignment answered.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my ( ____, ____ ) = @ARGV;    ## get the filenames from the CLI
my %number_freq;              ## declare an hash to use

open my $fh, '<', $file2 or die "can't open cos:$!";
while (<$fh>) {
    chomp;
    next if $_ == 0;
    ## Using each value read from file handler as an hash key, initial
+ize the hash value for
    ## each key to 0
    __________________________________________;
}
close $fh or die "can't close: $!";

open $fh, '<', $file1 or die "can't open cos:$!";
while (<___>) {    ## fill in this
    chomp;
    next if $_ == 0;
    ## If the hash key exists increase it's value by 1.
    __________________________________________;
}
close $fh or die "can't close: $!";

print Dumper \%number_freq;    ## used to display the result

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In addition to this, in place of using Data::Dumper module with the print function to output your answer, you will have to write out your own print output.
Please, do not attempt to run this without filling in the blank spaces.
Hope this helps

In reply to Re: frequency strings 2 files by 2teez
in thread frequency strings 2 files by philbertcheese86

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