#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub slurp { my $file = shift; open my $fh, '<', $file or return undef; local $/ unless wantarray; return <$fh>; } my @long = slurp 'long'; my @short = slurp 'short'; my %diff; @diff {@long} = (); delete @diff {@short}; my @diff = sort keys %diff; print "@diff\n";