use Modern::Perl open trained , 'D://ARP//libsvm-3.12//families//antioxidant//training.scale'; open predict , 'D://ARP//libsvm-3.12//families//antioxidant//testing.scale'; my $counter = 0; while () { my $train = $_; while () { #print $_; my $predict = $1; if ($train = $predict) { #print $train; $counter = $counter + 1 } } } print $counter;