in reply to Select only desired features from a text
Well, that depends on how many lines there are in second file. The easiest way is to store the matched records in a hash.
You might find it useful to look at the perl data structures cookbook perldsc
BTW, there is lots of documentation shipped with your copy of perl - try 'man perl' or 'perldoc perl' ;)
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