It's only fair to follow up on my own question. Thanks to "dragonchild" for the insights and tips on how to solve my issue. The good news is that I have solved that issue but not the way you showed me (hashes). I know, some will say that that would be the best way to approach it but at this point, at least, I try to use the skills I know to their fullest plust I was in a time crunch so could not spend to much time on disecting hashes and making them work. In any case, here is my final code that works: 

foreach (@matched) {
    my  @record = split(/,/, $_);
    my $lic = $record[$#record];
    chomp($lic);
        
    my ($lname, $fname) = split(/\s+/, uc($record[5]));
    my $name = "$lname " . substr($fname, 0, 2);    

    # If we find a matching record, then we write it out to a file
    
    if (grep /$name/, @phoneBook) {
        my @line = grep /$name/, @phoneBook;
        
        foreach my $rec (0 .. $#line) {
            if ($rec == 0) { # In case I had more than one record (lik
+e the same user multiple times), I only limit results to 1
                @line = split(/,/, $line[$rec]);                      
+      
                print RESULTS "$record[0],UNKNOWN,$lic,SLC,$line[0],$l
+ine[1],$line[2],$line[3],$line[4],$name\n";
            }
        }
    } else {
        chomp(@record);        
        print UNMATCHED "$record[0],$record[5],$record[7],$record[2],$
+record[3],$record[4],UNKNOWN,\\N,\\N\n";
    }
}

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A use of PERL's grep function solved my problem in a couple of lines rather than trying to write functions and use hashes.... :-)

But again, thanks for all your help!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Comparing two files by bman
in thread Comparing two files by bman

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