Hello,

I have two text files and have extracted each to its own array. I want to compare these two arrays to each other, line by line, and print the lines in file2 that are not in file1. Here is my code so far:

use strict;
use warnings;


my @lines;
my @lines2;

my $line;
my $line2;



open (OF, "> diff3.txt");
open (F2, "20100331.txt");
open (F, "20100316.txt");

    while (<F>) {
    
        @lines=(<F>);
            
            }
close (F);

    while (<F2>) {
    
        @lines2 = (<F2>);
        
            }
close (F2);

    foreach $line (@lines) { 
    
        foreach $line2 (@lines2) { print OF $line2 if ($line2 ne $line
+)}
        
        $line="";
        $line2="";
         } 
        
close (OF);

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Thanks in advance!!

In reply to Comparing Two arrays to find differences by JonDepp

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