Re: Comparing unordered but similar data files

[Kanji]

Your use of eq is actually comparing the number of elements in each array, which is why you only see a failure if one file has more lines than the other.

If you're using Perl 5.10 or newer, you can achieve what you want using ~~ (the smart match operator) instead:-

if (@sorted ~~ @sorted2)
{

If you're using Perl 5.8 or older, you'll need to compare the arrays element by element, an example of which you can find in perlfaq4 - How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?.

[gwam]

Thanks alot Kanji! That done the trick. I figured it was something like that. I thought i was going to need a foreach loop to access and compare each element in the arrays. awesome that Perl has that smart match operator. Thanks again you saved me alot of time.