I've never seen the syntax  @file = ; (and I'm not doubting you, just curious) but are you checking to see what the contents of @file are before you enter the while loop? Also you should be sure to put  chomp @file; before the loop since you might have newlines in the file at the end of each record ("\n").

Keep us posted.

--Jim

Afterthought: It is usually helpful when I'm debugging to use snippets similar to the following for testing arrays: 

my $i = 0;
foreach (@file) {
   print "\@file[", $i++, "] = '$_'\n";
}

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It helps spot newlines, incorrect subscripting and such.

Update: In case it is not clear from the previous posts, we're assuming that the file  'd:\mms_tableload.txt' looks like this: 

sarak_mike\n
mike\n
some\n
other\n
data\n

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The hash lookup must be an exact match (including newlines and case sensitivity). If there is other extraneous information like HTML tags embedded in @file, then you may need to use a different method that searches strings (like grep, or m/$_/), and this can be tricky since you'd have to insure that your search for "mike" doesn't match positve to "sarak_mike". </code>

In reply to Re: Re: Re: comparing two arrays by jlongino
in thread comparing two arrays by jdelmedi

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