Re^3: Reading through a file and checking for a specific string

Thanks! This works flawlessly.

I just had one more question. How do I avoid printing out values that are not found? So currently it prints out all 5 even if one of the match is not found.
AB : 135172
FG : 248782
AD : 64
AE : 0
AC : 0

I would like to avoid AE and AC in this case since they are not found.

Also, two more requirements just came up. There is a one word description attached to each string I am supposed to find and they are supposed to be printed alphabetically.

Would I need to make a separate array to print out description next to each string I am printing? This is what the result should look like:
AB(ABYUSID) : 135172
FG(FGIUIO) : 248782
AD(ADHGUT) : 64
AE(AERUTOT) : 0
AC(ACVHGTI) : 0
Would I need to store these one word descriptions in a separate array and print from there? I tried doing it that way but then it becomes infinite loop and keeps printing these values every time they are found
Thanks for all the help!

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Re^4: Reading through a file and checking for a specific string by poj (Abbot) on Aug 20, 2013 at 17:41 UTC
Store the description in a hash not an array. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # test data my %counts = ( AB => 135172, AC => 0, AD => 64, AE => 0, FG => 248782, ); my %descr = ( AB => 'ABYUSID', FG => 'FGIUIO', AD => 'ADHGUT', AE => 'AERUTOT', AC => 'ACVHGTI', ); for my $type ( sort keys %counts ) { # add sort next if ($counts{$type} == 0); # skip zeros print "$type($descr{$type})\t: $counts{$type}\n"; # add descr }` [download] poj	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Reading through a file and checking for a specific string by vihar (Acolyte) on Aug 21, 2013 at 14:02 UTC
Thanks poj! It works. I modified it according to how I needed it but thanks for your help! I appreciate it	[reply]
Re^4: Reading through a file and checking for a specific string by soonix (Chancellor) on Aug 21, 2013 at 11:43 UTC
While it is possible to skip the zero matches, however, it may actually better to include them. That way you distinguish between "searched but not found" and "not searched at all".	[reply]
Re^4: Reading through a file and checking for a specific string by vihar (Acolyte) on Aug 22, 2013 at 15:49 UTC
Do you know if there is a way to print out the two letter string I am looking for if it doesn't exist in the file? So for example, if I have another string in file "FD" that doesn't match anything, could I still print it out just so I know which ones I am missing. Thanks!	[reply]