guys I am new to perl scripting.
I am trying to read 2 different txt files into 2 different arrays. My goal is to have a script read them both and print out any differences. Here is the script - it only prints out some of the files that end in a *.cer extentions but is miss the other info ###### perl script #! ./perl #compares directories on 2 servers open (INPUT, "<atlasdirectorylisting.txt"); open (INPUT2, "<ISISdirectorylisting.txt"); open (OUTPUT,">compare.log"); @lines = <INPUT>; @lines2 = <INPUT2>; %lines = map {$_,1} @lines; @difference = grep {!$lines {$_}} @lines2; print "@difference\n"; print OUTPUT "@difference\n"; close (INPUT); close (INPUT2); close (OUTPUT); ####################contents of atlasdirectorylisting.txt#### . .. 3ACC91EF-E063-4C88-9728-71E222608D14.cer AE72EA9F-93B1-4834-86CE-FD68E78FAB07.cer CORPACTION_data.mdf CORPACTION_log.ldf distribution.LDF distribution.MDF DML_data.mdf DML_Log.ldf DTCC.mdf DTCC_log.ldf FEE.mdf FEE_log.ldf GPLUS_data.mdf GPLUS_log.ldf LAVA_Data.MDF LAVA_Log.LDF lumigent.mdf lumigent_log.LDF Mobetter_data.mdf Mobetter_index1.ndf Mobetter_log.ldf MSSQL.1 MSSQL.2 ProdSupport.mdf ProdSupport_log.ldf Reference_Data.MDF Reference_Log.LDF Staging_Data.MDF Staging_Log.LDF Sumicastx_data.mdf Sumicastx_log.ldf test.mdf test_log.ldf ####contents of ISISdirectorylisting.txt"); . .. 7FAEBFBC-60F4-478A-A907-02C3CD227FCF.cer CORPACTION_data.mdf CORPACTION_log.ldf D6EB2208-44E8-4552-AE7F-D025DC0C944D.cer distribution.LDF distribution.MDF DML_data.mdf DML_Log.ldf FEE.mdf FEE_log.ldf GPLUS_data.mdf GPLUS_log.ldf LAVA_Data.MDF LAVA_Log.LDF lumigent.mdf lumigent_log.LDF Mobetter_data.mdf Mobetter_index1.ndf Mobetter_log.ldf ProdSupport.mdf ProdSupport_log.ldf Reference_Data.MDF Reference_Log.LDF Staging_Data.MDF Staging_Log.LDF Sumicastx_data.mdf Sumicastx_log.ldf test.mdf test_log.ldf ####contents of compare (output) txt file 7FAEBFBC-60F4-478A-A907-02C3CD227FCF.cer D6EB2208-44E8-4552-AE7F-D025DC0C944D.cer What am i missing? marc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/