Hi, Vikas, and welcome to PerlMonks!

You've enclosed one loop within another, so you're attempting to compare the first $comp1 value against all elements of @var2, and so on. And tobyink's point about "if they match" is well made, so I suspect you want $comp1 eq $comp2.

Given this, consider the following:

use strict; use warnings; my %matchingLines; open my $fh1, '<', 'File1.txt' or die $!; chomp( my @file1Lines = <$fh1> ); close $fh1; open my $fh2, '<', 'File2.txt' or die $!; chomp( my @file2Lines = <$fh2> ); close $fh2; for my $file1Line (@file1Lines) { $matchingLines{"$file1Line\n"}++ if $file1Line ~~ @file2Lines; } open my $fh3, '>', 'FileA.txt' or die $!; print $fh3 $_ for keys %matchingLines; close $fh3;

If a line in @file1Lines is found in @file2Lines via the smart match operator (works as equality), it's added to the hash %matchingLines for later printing to a file (the hash is used to avoid the possibility of writing multiple instances of the same line to the file).

Hope this helps!

Update: Lotus1 correctly brought to my attention that I misunderstood the OP. Have revised the script.


In reply to Re: File handles in regular expressions by Kenosis
in thread File handles in regular expressions by vikasdawar

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