Hello,

I need help trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I'm working with 2 seperate text files both of which
contain domain names.  What I'm attempting to do is
read the first file of domains and run a search based
on the contents of that file against the second file
of domains.  Then open a completely new file writing
the contents of the second file with the exception of
the domains from the first file will be commented out.

Here's an example:

File 1:
dummy.com
stupid.com
idiot.com
newbie.com

File 2:
rtfm.com
readitagain.com
dummy.com
stupid.com
idiot.com
newbie.com

New File:
rtfm.com
readitagain.com
#dummy.com
#stupid.com
#idiot.com
#newbie.com

With the script that I wrote what happens is it only
comments out the last entry from file 1. so when it
writes to the new file only (newbie.com) will be
commented out: 

New File With My Script:
rtfm.com
readitagain.com
dummy.com
stupid.com
idiot.com
#newbie.com

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


Here's the script I'm working with:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $domainlist = shift || die("You must provide a
domain list file.");
my $hostnames = "local-host-names";


open(DAT, "<$domainlist") || die("Unable to open
'$domainlist'.");
   while (<DAT>) {
   chomp;
print $_,"\n";

       my $cur1 = $_;

      open (DATA, "<$hostnames");
      open (NEWDATA, ">$hostnames.new");

        while (<DATA>) {
            chomp;
        my $cur2 = $_;



        my ($data) = $cur2 =~ /($cur1)/is;
        my $newdata;

        if ($data) {
         $newdata = "#" . $cur2;

                }
        else {
        $newdata = $cur2;   
         }
        print NEWDATA "$newdata\n";
      }

      close DATA;
      close NEWDATA;
   }
      close DAT;


I was able to get all domains commented out by putting
line in:

open (NEWDATA, ">>$hostnames.new");
instead of:
open (NEWDATA, ">$hostnames.new");

But it also made duplicate entries in the new text
file as well. So for every entry that looked like
this:

rtfm.com
readitagain.com
#dummy.com
#stupid.com
#idiot.com
#newbie.com

There were 3 more entries that looked like this:

rtfm.com
readitagain.com
dummy.com
stupid.com
idiot.com
newbie.com


Any guidance on how to fix this problem would be
greatly appreciated...





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