Hello Craig, Saturday, December 08, 2001, Craig Inman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CI> As I'm new to perl, I'm more or less trying to write a 'nested while CI> read' loop (atleast that is what my attempts come out to look like so CI> far). CI> trying something like.... CI> open (A, $list1) or die ..... my $a,$b; CI> while(<A>) CI> chomp; CI> { CI> print " $_\n"; #just so I know that it's there $a=$_; CI> } CI> open(B, $list2) or die .... CI> while(<B>) CI> chomp; CI> if $_ =~ ????? # this is where I'm getting lost, want to CI> compare $_ from above (<A>) to $_ from (<B>) $b=$_; if $b =~ $a .... CI> then I'm just printing my diffs so I can correc the necessary files. Best wishes, Maxim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]