$good=0; $bad=0; while ((defined ($line1 = )) && (defined ($line2 = ))) { @words1 = split(/ /, $line1); @words2 = split(/ /, $line2); $wordsno = @words2; until ($wordsno-- == 0){ if ($words1[$wordsno] eq $words2[$wordsno]) { $good++; } else {$bad++;} } } print "good: $good"; print "bad: $bad"; close INPUT1; close INPUT2;