while () { chomp(); if (/^(MSH)(.....)/) { setdelimiters($2); } @field = split /$fs/; if ($newblock{$field[0]}) { processbuffer(); } elsif (!$partofblock{$field[0]}) { print STDERR "Possible error: segment=$field[0] line $.\n"; } if ($field[0] eq "FT1") { if ($field[7] == $skipaccount{$_}) { $suppress = 1 if $skipaccount{$field[7]}; } } $buffer .= "$_\n"; } processbuffer(); sub processbuffer { print OUT $buffer unless $suppress; $buffer=""; $suppress = 0; }