I'm sure there are more elegant and probably better solutions, but this is one way to do it.

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my %fields; my $header = <DATA>; while (<DATA>) { chomp; next if /\A\s*\Z/; my ($f1, $f2) = split; push @{ $fields{$f1} }, $f2; } for my $k (keys %fields) { my ($one, $three) = (0, 0); # if either of these remain zero, ID i +s invalid for my $values ( @{ $fields{$k} } ) { ++$one if ( $values == 1 ); ++$three if ( $values == 3 ); } print "invalid ID: $k\n" unless $one * $three; } __DATA__ field1 field2 3-2000/7.48 1 3-2000/7.48 2 3-2000/7.48 2 3-2000/7.48 2 3-2000/7.48 2 3-2000/7.48 2 3-2000/7.48 2 3-2000/7.48 3 4-0000/8.40 2 4-0000/8.40 2 4-0000/8.40 2 4-0000/8.40 2 4-0000/8.40 2 4-0000/8.40 2 4-0000/8.40 3


In reply to Re: validating file with perl by farang
in thread validating file with perl by mmittiga17

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