\#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w %Acts = (); use Getopt::Long; $time1= time; &Actsin1; &Group; $time2 = time; $time3 = $time2 - $time1; print "$time3 seconds\n"; print "finished"; sub Actsin1 { $filetoopen1 = "c:\\Update\\nosect\.txt"; open (ACTLIST, $filetoopen1) || die "Could not open file $filetoopen1 \n"; open (OUTPUT2,">c:\\Update\\Errors.txt") || die "Could not open output \n"; dbmopen (%Groups, "c:\\Update\\Groups",0666) || die "Could not open Acts database\n"; while () { $TheLine = $_; @WordList = "$TheLine"; } } sub Group { $filetoopen = "c:\\update\\makeme\\statutes\.fff"; open (INPUT, $filetoopen) || die "Could not open file $filetoopen \n"; open (OUTPUT,">c:\\update\\makeme\\newstat.fff") || die "Could not open output \n"; while () { $TheLine = $_; if ($TheLine =~ /[^\n]*Status Compendium<<.JL>/i) { $ListPos = 0; until($ListPos > $#WordList) { if ($TheLine eq $WordList[$ListPos]) { $TheLine = ""; pop(@WordList) } $ListPos +=1 } } print OUTPUT "$TheLine"; } }