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in thread split file and put contents in variables?

I may have got this completely wrong but it looks to me like you want to match lines in the file to some previously assigned variables. If so, perhaps this will clarify

#!perl use strict; use warnings; my $pattern = 'W'; my $match = 'lipid'; my $cyclo = 'CC'; my $group = 'GGG'; my $results = 'c:/temp/'; my $filepath = 'Test/'; my $infile = 'ABC.txt'; chdir "$results$filepath" or die "cannot chdir to $results$filepath ! $!"; if (-e $infile) { open my $test, '<', $infile or die "Can't open $infile: $!"; while (my $line = <$test>){ my @f = split ' ', $line; if ( ($f[0] eq $pattern.$match) && ($f[1] eq $cyclo) && ($f[2] eq $group) ){ print $line; } } } else { print "$infile does not exist"; }
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Re^5: split file and put contents in variables?
by angela2 (Sexton) on Feb 02, 2016 at 16:41 UTC

    Hi, thanks for your time! Yes you are right, although just to clarify this is what I'm trying to match. In one file, it'll be

    Wlipid     propane     carboxyl

    In another file it'll be

    Zchain     pentane     ether

    And so on. So the entries aren't in lines, they're in one line each, space delimited in between, as seen above. I'll try your code now, thanks for the effort!