Seems pretty straight forward. What have you tried so far? Hopefully, here is something to help you. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $file_1 = <<HEREDOC;
daw2n 189445 eastparkway ca
daw1n 189445 eastparkway ca
dawn 189445 eastparkway ca
HEREDOC

open( my $file, '<', \$file_1 )
  or die "Cannot open $file_1";
my @first_records = <$file>;
close( $file );

while (my $line = <DATA>) {
    for my $i (@first_records) {
        print "Record in file 1 found in file 2: $i"
          if ( $line eq "$i" );
    }
}

__DATA__
kathy 329390 westbrook wa
kat1hy 329390 westbrook wa
dawn 189445 eastparkway ca
kat2hy 329390 westbrook wa

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In reply to Re: Need code for comparing by bichonfrise74
in thread Need code for comparing by idy

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