#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; die "Usage: $0 corpus.e|f corpus.f|e" unless scalar @ARGV == 2; my ($a, $b) = @ARGV; open A, "<$a" or die "Can't read $a: $!"; open B, "<$b" or die "Can't read $a: $!"; while() { chomp; my $e = ; die "Mismatched lines in $a and $b!" unless defined $e; print "$_ ||| $e"; } my $e = ; die "Mismatched lines in $a and $b!" unless !defined $e;