On Nov 22, Pinar 2 said: >> >syntax error at ./shopdiff.pl line 5, near "++ for " >> >Execution of ./shopdiff.pl aborted due to compilation errors. >> >> You're using an older version of Perl. Do:
If you're using 5.005_03, then the postfix-for should work. Perhaps your PROGRAM is using an older version of Perl that you still have hanging around somewhere? >Thanks that worked. It didn't give me differences though, it gave me the >common list items. Perhaps the unique to sub will give the differences but >I can't get that one working either. If you have arrays with UNIQUE elements, then the following code returns the elements in one but not both: sub diff { my %seen; for (@_) { for (@$_) { $seen{$_}++ } } return grep $seen{$_} == 1, keys %seen } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]