Oh, right, I read an elsif instead of the second if, which meant that you would only have exited the loop when $position is above range. Then resetting $placeholder to 0 would work I guess (untested). But the condition is that your input data has to be sorted (as in ordered), which it seemed to be in your sample.

Still, you don't check that $placeholder is a valid value, if the last element of @SNP is inside one of the ranges, you'll increase $placeholder and try to access $SNP[last element+1] which would yield undef. I'm not sure you thought of that case.

In the end, your inner loop reworked would be something like : 

# It would probably be better have
# while (my $line = <CG>)
# but that would mean rethinking your whole code
for my $line (@SNP) 
{
   my $position = (split " ", $line)[3];
   last unless $position <= $end;
   print OUT $line if $position > $start;
}

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This is of course, completely untested :D.

In reply to Re^3: Sorting Data By Overlapping Intervals by Eily
in thread Sorting Data By Overlapping Intervals by ccelt09

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