Re^2: Extracting lines starting with a pattern from an array

Thanks for the code, thanks all. But something really weird is happening... The script is returning only a single match (and I know for sure there should be more than one). I have tried a few other codes and they give me the same unique match as well.

However I have written a dummy data set and the code works on it. So, knowing that my data have been given to me by someone and they are derived from an excel file, am I right to suspect that some kind of invisible characters are causing a problem?

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Re^3: Extracting lines starting with a pattern from an array by u65 (Chaplain) on Dec 18, 2015 at 11:37 UTC
If you suspect that, you might try looking at the raw input data. For example, on *nix start with this `$ od -cx input-data.txt > raw-input-data.txt` and look at the output file.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Extracting lines starting with a pattern from an array by hippo (Archbishop) on Dec 18, 2015 at 12:19 UTC
As an added bonus, `od` is part of the PerlPowerTools suite so you don't even have to rely on it being supplied as a binary by your O/S.	[reply] [d/l]