Comparing version strings within two files

[umamaheswarig]

file1 contains data like this:

C-tree version v8.27.123

file2 contains data like this:

some text......
Database version
C-tree server v8.27.123
some text......

Now, I want to compare these two files and find out whether the versions of two files are same or not..
if versions are same we have to print saying equal...else not..

As am entirely new to perl,I did some coding like this...

so kindly help me out......

Here the code I tried:
[CODE=perl]
my $df = 'D:\serv.pl';
my $df2 ='D:\dbver.pl';

open file, "$df" or die "can't open $df";
open file2, "$df2" or die "can't open $df2";

@a = <file>;
@a2 = <file2>;

foreach $line (@a) {
if($line =~ m/c-tree Server/i) {
$f = $line;
@b = split(/ /, $f);
foreach $i (@b) {
print "$i\n";
}
}
}

foreach $line1 (@a2) {
if($line1 =~ m/c-tree Server/i) {
$f2 = $line1;
@c = split(/ /, $f2);
foreach $j (@c) {
foreach $i (@b) {
if ($j eq $i) {
print"Equal";
}
}
}
}
}

close (file);
close (file2);
[/CODE]

[miller]

Note that your first file contains the text "C-tree version", while the second one contains "C-tree server". This may be the source of your problem. You code looks like it's on it's way to working, but I would suggest that you extrapolate the file reading process into a subroutine so that you only have to type it once.

Here is what I would have in mind:

[CODE=perl]
use strict;

my $df1 = 'D:\serv.pl';
my $df2 = 'D:\dbver.pl';

my $version1 = get_ctree_versi on($df1);
my $version2 = get_ctree_versi on($df2);

if ($version1 eq $version2) {
print "Equal: $version1\n";
} else {
print "Not Equal: $version1 vs $version2\n";
}

sub get_ctree_versi on {
my $file = shift;

open my $fh, $file or die "Can't open $file: $!";
while (<$fh>) {
chomp;
my $line = $_;

if ($line =~ m/^C-tree (?-i:version|serve r) (\S+)/) {
return $1;
}
}

die "Unable to find version string in $file";
}
[/CODE]

- Miller

[umamaheswarig]

Thanks Miller,
Thanks u very much for you immediate reply....