Hey monks, I am not sure if I am asking this question at the right place but I am having issue with my file compare code in perl. I have two files -
File 1 - "/export/home/Tests/outputIS.txt"
The text that is in File 1:
IS Count: 1268706
File 2 - "/export/home/Tests/outputDB.txt"
The text that is in File 2:
IS Count: 1268706 
use File::Compare;

if (compare("/export/home/Tests/outputIS.txt","/export/home/Tests/outp
+utDB.txt") == 0) {
  print "They're equal\n";
}
else {
  print "Files are not equal\n";
}

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Even though the files are exactly the same, it reports out "Files are not equal". Any help and suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

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