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I am new to Perl and trying to compare two files and print out the differences of file #2 base from file 1. In other words, I want the keep the file 1 and delete the duplicate of file 2. Each file has sections and in each section contents different information. I want to diff the files. If there are sections. Here is my code

File1.txt

SECTION, ONE, 1, 4, YELLOW, HIGH, THIS IS COMMENT This is my line This is my page SECTION, THREE, 9, 4, RED, HIGH, THIS IS COMMENT This is a dog This is a cat

File2.txt

SECTION, ONE, 1, 4, YELLOW, HIGH, THIS IS COMMENT This is a cat This is not a cat SECTION, TWO, 2, 4, BLUE, HIGH, THIS IS COMMENT This is not a book This is a notebook
my output result:
SECTION, TWO, 2, 4, BLUE, HIGH, THIS IS COMMENT
Output should be:
SECTION, TWO, 2, 4, BLUE, HIGH, THIS IS COMMENT This is not a book This is a notebook
Here is my code:
#!/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use File::Copy; use Cwd; my $dir = cwd; main(); sub main { printf "\nStarting script\n"; printf "\nEnter the file 1: "; my $fh1 = <STDIN>; chomp $fh1; printf "\n"; printf "Enter the file 2: "; my $fh2 = <STDIN>; chomp $fh2; my $tempFile = "temp.txt"; my $nonMatch = "nonMatch.txt"; if(-e $fh1 and -e $fh2) { my %results = (); open (FILE1, "<$fh1") or die "Input file $fh1 not found.\n +"; while(my $line = < FILE1>) { if($line =~ /^Section/) { my ($sec, $first, $second, $third, $color, $mode, +$description_comments) = split(',', $line, 7); $results{$line}=1; } } close(FILE1); open (FILE, "<$fh2") or die "Input file $fh2 not found.\n" +; while(my $line = <>) { if($line =~ /^Section/) { my ($sec, $first, $second, $third, $color, $mode, +$description_comments) = split(',', $line, 7); $results{$line}++; } } close(FILE2); open (NONMATCH, ">$nonMatch") or die "Cannot open $nonMatc +h for writing \n"; foreach my $line (keys %results) { print NONMATCH " $results{$line} - $line" if $results{$li +ne} ==2; } close NONMATCH; } close FILE2; }

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