Hi Stuart, Have a look on CPAN (www.cpan.org) there are two wonderfull packages to do exactely what you are dreaming of :
Algorithm::Diff Text::ParagraphDiff Have a nice day Michel -----Message d'origine----- De: Dan Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 23 janvier 2004 02:17 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl Beginners Objet: Re: Need help comparing lines in two files Lets say file 1 is: foo bar ... continues on for 100 lines And file 2 is: foo baz bar ... continues on exactly the same 100 lines as file 1 Would file 2 be different from file 1 from line 2 and down? Or would it be different for line 2 and 3? Also, the keywords: next; Brings you to the next iteration in a loop last; leaves the loop Should help you iterate through a while loop (or empty loop) i.e. { # this is a loop, just two sets of brackets # put a last statement and it will leave. # put one of these in your for loops, or outside of your for loops. } Also you can get tricky by naming loops, i.e.: FOO: { print "foo"; BAR: { last FOO; } # anything below here never executes print "bar"; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>