in reply to Re^2: Beginner Hash Element Comparison
in thread Beginner Hash Element Comparison

There appears to be a problem with the "io" file opening portion.
What error messages did you get?

I then wrote a bit of code to more explicitly open the files, and checked to see if it would print their contents. It does that but when I do it that way i get no output in the command line.
Does it or doesn't it print out anything? Perhaps you can try adding (in the first script) a say "@first_array"; say "@second_array"; just before the loop so you are sure the arrays indeed contain the correct data.

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