From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-06-27T01:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing 2 files.

Aaron Scott wrote:
> I'm wondering if it is possible to compare 2 text 
> files and if those files have any differences in them that I can then 
> automatically send myself an email stating that the 2 files are not the 
> same.

The first thing you could try is to stat the files (builtin File::Stat 
class) and see if there are any relevant differences between them (e.g. 
size, mtime).

Or you could ask the OS to do a diff on the files.

Or you could read each file into a string and compare the two strings.

Or...
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