use strict; use warnings; open (FILE, "a") or die "Unable to open ref file.\n"; my @data1 = ; close(FILE); open (FILE, "b") or die "Unable to open new file.\n"; my @data2 = ; close(FILE); my $i; for( $i = 0; $i < 2; $i++){ if ($data1[$i] ne $data2[$i]){ print "Mismatch for $data1[$i] and $data2[$i]\n"; exit; } }