I haven't asked a question here in a long time, but my Perl skills are a bit fuzzy. Here is what I am trying to do and have been banging my head against my desk for about a week now. file1 is a list separated by a ":" file2 is a list separated by a "," I want to open both files for reading and output to "file3". The first field of file1 is my "search string" that I'm looking for in file2. if the string doesn't match - print the line from file2 to file3. if the string does match - print the line from file2 to file3 along with the 4th field from file1 to the 6th field of file3. Any help is certainly appreciated.

In reply to regex and printing by at2marty

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