#!perl -w use strict; my $buffer=""; my $suppress = 0; my @field; my %newline; # my %partofblock; my %skipaccount; $skipaccount{$_} = 1 for qw(77403 77404 77406 77407 77408 77409 77411 77412 77413 77414 77416 77418); my $infile = 'c:/rx_q.008'; my $outfile = 'c:/ftpscript/idxfile.txt'; open IN, "<$infile" or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!"; open OUT,">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!"; $newline{$_} = 1 for qw(MSH); while () { chomp(); if ($newline{$field[0]}) { processbuffer(); } if ( index($newline{$_}, $skipaccount{$_}) != -1) { $suppress = 1 if $skipaccount{$field[7]}; } $buffer .= "$_\n"; } processbuffer(); sub processbuffer { print OUT $buffer unless $suppress; $buffer=""; $suppress = 0; }