Using Perl instead of awk you would do: 

use strict; 
use warnings;
my $label     = "some string";
my $apex      = 10; # some number
my $reference = "somefile.txt";
my $name      = "out.txt";

open IN, "<", $reference or die "Cannot open file $reference.\n";
open OUT, ">", "temp_marker_$name" or die "Cannot open file temp_marke
+r_$name.\n";
while(<IN>) {
    my @fields = split; # cannot remember what awk splits on by defaul
+t
    if( $fields[0] eq $label
    and $fields[2] <= $apex
    and $fields[3] >= $apex ) {
        print OUT $_;
    }
}
close OUT;
close IN;

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In reply to Re: perl awk by hdb
in thread perl awk by jarwulf

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