i'm working in perl.
i want to compare the values of an array. The input file may contain datas like this:

test
test
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now i want to compare the values of 1 and 2 then 2 and so on. can anyone help me?

Your question is confusing. You say you want to compare the  values of an array, but then say the input file may contain....
Are you comparing the lines of a file or the elements of an array? Or have you read the lines of a file into an array? If so:

Code:

@array = qw(1 1 foo foo faa boo boo); for my $i (0 .. $#array) {   $n = $i+1;   print "Line numbers $i and $n:" , ($array[$i] eq $array[$i+1] ) ? "Equal\n" :  "Not equal\n"; }

Keep in mind, arrays start at 0 (zero) so when the output says 0 it corresponds to line number one of a file read into an array.



hi,

As u have mentioned i'm reading the whole file into an array.
i have pasted the code what i have tried.

$file = 'c:/test8.txt';
open(INFILE, $file);
foreach (<INFILE>)
{
     @dnames=<INFILE>;
     for($j=1;$j<$dnames;$j++)
     {
     
     for($k=j+1;$k<@dnames;$k++)
     {
     if($dnames[j] eq $dnames[k])
     {
     print "compared";
     }
     }
     }

}

 if($dnames[j] eq $dnames[k])

should be

 if($dnames[$j] eq $dnames[$k])

for starters.


You then want to eliminate checking each item against itself, and also put a not of just WHICH ones are the same if you find an identical pair.

on 10/16/07 at 07:04:21, Tim wrote:

hi, As u have mentioned i'm reading the whole file into an array. i have pasted the code what i have tried. $file = 'c:/test8.txt'; open(INFILE, $file); foreach (<INFILE>) {      @dnames=<INFILE>;      for($j=1;$j<$dnames;$j++)      {            for($k=j+1;$k<@dnames;$k++)      {      if($dnames[j] eq $dnames[k])      {      print "compared";      }      }      } }

I think my code showed you how to do exactly what you want. Your code is wrong in several ways.

I'm led to wonder what the overall aim of the code is? Is it to detect duplicates in input? If so then this algorithm is not the best choice as it certainly won't scale...

If it's duplicates you are after, why not use a hash?

 my %lines = (); # keeps use strict happy
 my $line;  # ditto...
 while ( defined( $line = <INPUT> ) ) {
   if ( exists( $lines{$line} ) {
     print "$line exists already\n";
   } else {
     $lines{$line}++;
   }
 }

Now keys %lines has a list of all the unique lines in your input, and the value of each element in the hash will be the number of times the line was seen...

Of course that may not be what you want, in which case ignore

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