in reply to Re^4: Seek and Find
in thread Seek and Find

Hmm, I very much doubt that this code is going to compile.

Besides, I don't think that the approach is good.

My basic idea is something like this:

use strict; use warnings; my %required = map { $_ => 1 } 63, 66, 69, 72, 73, 74, 95, 96, 98, 134 +, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 159, 162, 172, 173, 175, 177, 178, 197, 19 +8, 201, 210, 225, 232, 237, 240, 243, 246, 247; open my $CONTACT0, "<", "Contactmap00_0.txt" or die "unable to open Co +ntactmap00_0.txt $!";; while (<CONTACT0>) { chomp; my @line = split (//, $_); print "$_: Not a match\n" and next unless exists $required{$line[1 +]}; # your other conditions here ... }