Re^3: Unknow number show up

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Dear Vkhaw,

The 'print' was to help you see what your 'system' call was doing, not to fix your problem. You have some excellent suggestions from other posters, integrate their suggestions and then post additional questions.

My current suggestion is to take some time to better understand your file inputs. ie:

• Are the files sorted in any way? Could they be sorted for performance?
• Can file2 be loading into an array in memory? That way you read the file once before the loop and then inside the loop, you read file1 a line at a time...Much faster!
• Do your 's///' directly without re-calling Perl! Much, much faster!

And please keep asking questions, that's how we all learned!

Regards...Ed