Re^3: Filtering Output from two files

[LanX]

Due to broken indentation it's hard to read and I won't go into details.

Have a look at http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html and basic debugging checklist

[vighneshmufc]

Sorry would indentation next time onwards. Basic what's happening is the big files have whitespace before and after each entry So I have to remove those while I store them to a key .

[LanX]

> So I have to remove those while I store them to a key

OK ... what is hindering you? :)

update

you are already using a regex to match empty lines, time to understand what they do

perlre#Metacharacters

  ^   Match the beginning of the string            Not in []
       (or line, if /m is used)
...
  $   Match the end of the string                  Not in [], but can

...

  *   Matches the preceding element 0 or more      Not in []
              times

update

and look again into marshall's code ;-)

[vighneshmufc]

open (my ($fh2),$file2) or die $!;

while (my $row = <$fh2>)
 {
         chomp $row;

       print "$row\n";
         next if $row =~ /^\s*$/;
        my (@fields) = split(/\|/, $row);

so i have to add $row =~ s/\s*$// after  next if $row =~ /^\s*$/; and it will work? i cant really check from here since i am at home and would have to wait another 12 hours

[hippo]

i cant really check from here since i am at home

1. Install perl at home
2. Mock up some sample data
3. Run your code at home against the sample data

Now you will know whether it works without having to wait.