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in thread Compare fields in a file

Actually, there is a subtle difference: yours outputs an empty string for the elements which should be discarded. When printing this doesn't matter, but when saving it into an array, you will have lots of empty elements sprinkled through the array. Hence my use of grep which doesn't output anything if the value of its block is false.

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