On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:20, mritorto <mritorto@gmail.com> wrote: > owen, > > How do you use the List::Compare module is the same as array::compare? snip List::Compare can be found in CPAN*. Here is you program rewritten to use it (this is not what I would do): #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use List::Compare; #compares directories on 2 servers open my $atlas, "<", "atlasdirectorylisting.txt" or die "could not open atlasdirectorylisting.txt: $!"; open my $isis, "<", "ISISdirectorylisting.txt" or die "could not open ISISdirectorylisting.txt: $!"; my @atlas = <$atlas>; my @isis = <$isis>; my $comparison = List::Compare->new(\@atlas, \@isis); print $comparison->get_symmetric_difference; * http://search.cpan.org/dist/List-Compare/lib/List/Compare.pm -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.Thread Previous | Thread Next