Re^3: Equality checking for strings AND numbers

Looking at the Text::Diff module, I noticed the following:

my $diff = diff \&reader1,\&reader2;
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I assume that this means you can use a subroutine to return the column you need from the input files and then just use Text::Diff to compare.

Do you have some sample input files? What sort of output are you expecting to be generated (a list of the differences, print to screen etc) and what should the format of this output be??
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Re^4: Equality checking for strings AND numbers
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2007 at 14:26 UTC

File1
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X  Y  Category1 Category2 Value1 Value2 Value3 Result 
2  -9 1.0       2.0       1.1e3  1.234  -0.003 PASS   

File2
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X  Y  Category2 Category1 Value3 Value1 Value2        
2  -9 1         1         -0.003 1.1e3  1.2345 FAIL
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$data1{"$x,$y}{$colnames[$colnum]} = $linedata[$colnum];
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