in reply to Comparing FILE1 value to FILE2 range and printing matches

Using some modules:
use Modern::Perl '2014'; use Number::Interval; use List::Util qw/first/; # FILE1 data emulation my @FILE1 = qw/99269 550 100 126477 1700/; my @interval_objects; while (<DATA>) { chomp; my ($start, $end, undef) = split; push @interval_objects, Number::Interval->new( IncMax => 0, IncMin => 0, Min => $start, Max => $end, ); } for my $datapoint (@FILE1) { my $found = first {$_->contains($datapoint)} @interval_objects; say "$datapoint is in $found" if $found; } # FILE2 data emulation __DATA__ 517 1878 forward 700 2500 forward 2156 3289 forward 99000 100000 forward 22000 23000 backward
Output:
99269 is in (99000,100000) 550 is in (517,1878) 1700 is in (517,1878)
As said before, this will only work if the list of intervals is not huge.

It will also only find the first interval that matches. if you want to find all intervals that match, replace the for-loop by:

for my $datapoint (@FILE1) { my @found = grep {$_->contains($datapoint)} @interval_objects; say "$datapoint is in @found" if @found; }

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