in reply to Parsing for [] in a file

Open File1, read it line by line, parsing out the variables and saving them as the keys of a hash, with true values (like 1).

Open File2, read it line by line, parsing out the variable at the beginning of the line, checking to see if that variable exists as a key in your hash, and printing the line if it does.

Aaron B.
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