what's wrong with my loop?

[MyMarlboro]

i wish to compare 1 file with multiple files (in a folder)
@allfile - >> the paths for all files in a folder

but once i run the code below, it keep loop at print "comparing $masterfile with $file1";
if i delete the compare function it works well.
what's wrong? Thanks

use File::Compare;
foreach $file (@allfile) {
my $file1=$file;
$masterfile='c:\\ts\\compare1.pl';
            print "comparing $masterfile with $file1";
	if (compare("$masterfile","$file1") == 0) {
		print "They're equal\n";
	} else {
		 print "They're not equal\n";
	         }
	
}

[KevinADC]

i wish to compare 1 file with multiple files (in a folder)
@allfile - >> the paths for all files in a folder

but once i run the code below, it keep loop at print "comparing $masterfile with $file1";
if i delete the compare function it works well.
what's wrong? Thanks

use File::Compare;
foreach $file (@allfile) {
my $file1=$file;
$masterfile='c:\\ts\\compare1.pl';
            print "comparing $masterfile with $file1";
	if (compare("$masterfile","$file1") == 0) {
		print "They're equal\n";
	} else {
		 print "They're not equal\n";
	         }
	
}

Here is the code a bit cleaned up. It looks like it should work OK.

use File::Compare;
my $masterfile = 'c:/ts/compare1.pl'; # <-- forward slashes OK with windows
foreach my $file (@allfile) {
   print "comparing $masterfile with $file\n";
   if (compare($masterfile, $file) == 0) {
      print "They're equal\n";
   }
   else {
      print "They're not equal\n";
   }
}

run the code and post what this line prints:

 print "comparing $masterfile with $file";

[MyMarlboro]

It's still the same where it's pause at the code of compare.
comparing c:/ts/compare1.pl with c:\ts\aaa.pl

Once i remove the compare function, it's become ok.

should be somethingwrong with the compare function.

i noticed that whenever i use

print Dumper "comparing $masterfile with $file\n";

i can print the path correctly meaning got double '\\'

while if i use the

print "comparing $masterfile with $file\n";

it all change to single '\'

[MyMarlboro]

comparing c:/ts/compare1.pl with c:\ts\aaa.pl

i tried to change the "\" to "/"... but the code stil failed (keep looping when comapring the first file ) at the compare function.

help. thanks

[MyMarlboro]

i check with open(file, $file)|| or die $;
it's working fine. meaning there's no broken link for the path.
beside using compare function, is there any module tat i can use?
Please guide.

[KevinADC]

I don't know what the problem is or if there is another module you can use.

[MyMarlboro]

It's ok. thanks for your time.