Hello all

I am new to perl, and i am having trouble reading contents from file and comparing i have 2 files, i have to match the lines from two files and if they match then write that line into third file , heres how i do it

open(FILE1,"<", "file1.txt");
open(FILE2,"<", "file2.txt");
open(FILE3,">", "file3.txt");
my @var1=<FILE1>;
my @var2=<FILE2>;
foreach my $comp1 (@var1) {
foreach my $comp2 (@var2) {
if ($comp1 =~/$comp2/){
print FILE3 $comp1;
}
}
}

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and i know that lines in file 1 matches line 2, if i set up a scalar value for $comp2, then it matches, but from file handles it is not able to match please help me Thanks Vikas

In reply to File handles in regular expressions by vikasdawar

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