Reply to Jason R. Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07-01-25 07:53:
I've looked high and low but can't figure out how to easily do this: I
have two text files. In the first is a list of words (one word per
line), and for EACH of those words, I have to search and see if it
exists in the second text file. How can I automate this? (preferably
without reinventing the wheel) thanks very much,
Something like this might work
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# scriptname firstFile secondFile
use strict;
open( SECOND, "<$ARGV[1]" ) ||
die "Couldn't open $ARGV[1]";
my %sec;
while( <SECOND> ){
chomp;
$sec{$_} = 'x';
}
close( SECOND );
open( FIRST, "<$ARGV[0]" ) ||
die "Couldn't open $ARGV[0]";
while( <FIRST> ){
chomp;
print "Existed in other file $_\n" if $sec{$_};
}
close( FIRST );
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