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Well, that depends on how many lines there are in second file. The easiest way is to store the matched records in a hash.

You might find it useful to look at the perl data structures cookbook perldsc

BTW, there is lots of documentation shipped with your copy of perl - try 'man perl' or 'perldoc perl' ;)

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Re^2: Select only desired features from a text
by remluvr (Sexton) on Mar 19, 2012 at 14:12 UTC
    Problem is, it is a 4G file..