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Chas. Owens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 15:43, mritorto <mritorto@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> #compares directories on 2 servers >> open (INPUT, "<atlasdirectorylisting.txt"); >> open (INPUT2, "<ISISdirectorylisting.txt"); <snip> > This is not the best way to go about solving this problem (use diff > or a module like Text::Diff*), If we are going to suggest a module, List::Compare would be more to the point IMO. > It is important to note that this algorithm only works if you care > about unique lines. If you need to know that file1 has 5 lines of > "foo" and file2 has 4 lines of "foo", this code will not tell you > that. Since the files contain file names from directory listings, that cannot be applicable to the problem at hand. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.plThread Previous | Thread Next