RE: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-23 Thread EUROSPACE SZARINDAR
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

RE: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-23 Thread stuart_clemons
: 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

Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread stuart_clemons
This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I want for File3 is the new entry in File2, which

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread Dan Anderson
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

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread Dan Anderson
One more thing, those loops I was telling you about, just using a pair of brackets, also keep their scope. It's a good way to clean up with yourself, i.e. my $foo = 40; { my $foo = 50; print $foo; # prints 50 # garbage collector called on all declarations before here } print $foo; #

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread drieux
On Jan 22, 2004, at 4:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread wolf blaum
This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. I had a very simliar problem about a week ago, which James answerd here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Perl+looping+(a+lot+of)

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread stuart_clemons
){ if ($file2 eq $file1) { next FILE2; } } print $file2 \n; } The output is kiwi, which is exactly right. kiwi wolf blaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/2004 08:38 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Need help comparing lines in two files This very