Re^3: partial match between 2 files

The exclusive-or operator (^) between strings returns \x00 for each matching pair of characters, and a different value for non-matching characters. Thus, 'Perl' ^ 'Perl' would return '\x00\x00\x00\x00'. Matching a returned string for [^\x00] will show where the strings differ. In your case, only the first difference is requested. Given this, consider the following that uses your data:

use warnings;
use strict;

open my $fh1, '<', 'first_file.txt'  or die $!;
open my $fh2, '<', 'second_file.txt' or die $!;

while ( my $s1 = <$fh1> ) {
    chomp $s1;
    chomp( my $s2 = <$fh2> );

    ( $s1 ^ $s2 ) =~ /[^\x00]/;
    substr( $s2, $-[0], 0 ) = '+' if defined $-[0];
    print $s2, "\n";

}

close $fh2;
close $fh1;
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Output:

amaya+mAn
vismaya+mAn
soura+mA
kamal+An
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The variable $-[0] contains the position of the last match, which is passed to substr to insert a + at the location of the first difference between the two strings.

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Re^4: partial match between 2 files by lakssreedhar (Acolyte) on Dec 05, 2012 at 10:53 UTC
the code is working fine for those 2 files but if i am adding more words to file 1 which does not match to any of the file2 words then an error is occuring like Use of uninitialized value $s2 in chomp at triedsplit.pl line 9, <$fh2> line 10. Use of uninitialized value $s2 in bitwise xor (^) at triedsplit.pl line 11, <$fh2> line 10. Use of uninitialized value $s2 in print at triedsplit.pl line 13, <$fh2> line 10	[reply]
Re^5: partial match between 2 files by Kenosis (Priest) on Dec 05, 2012 at 19:56 UTC
The script assumes the same number of words in each file, since you showed the same number words in the two different word sets. Your next step is to make a few changes to adapt this script to handle files with different numbers of words.	[reply]
Re^6: partial match between 2 files by lakssreedhar (Acolyte) on Dec 08, 2012 at 08:06 UTC
I am comparing two files using hash and then checking each character by character.But even now when the position of the words are altered or some words are deleted from either files the error uninitialised value is coming	[reply]
Re^7: partial match between 2 files by Kenosis (Priest) on Dec 08, 2012 at 16:15 UTC
Re^8: partial match between 2 files by lakssreedhar (Acolyte) on Dec 27, 2012 at 07:10 UTC
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