Dear Monks,
I hereby seek your wisdom for a problem that I am encountering in a script of mine:
I end up having lines like the following:
.06669701$-.1672469$.02157899$.0346167$.65879324$.91614802$.45012441$r
+s11080516
-.05563282$-.00141932$.00036263$.00035752$.00541792$.00345471$.9269254
+3$rs11080
> 530
-.00042649$-.00475721$.00167316$.00182299$.99057815$.90393977$.6990673
+3$rs11080
> 537
.10901125$.0361255$.02148475$.00853908$.74113541$.45908988$.68361003$r
+s11080542
-.03866776$-.05004879$.00185491$.00145606$.38131545$.36141448$.1755140
+3$rs11080
> 557
-.004521$.01312692$.00033174$.00070174$.77873394$.88615378$.63499741$r
+s1108056
.0339248$.02398934$.00276444$.00303152$.80478053$.55026576$.67512938$r
+s11080561

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What I need to do is, whenever the line starts with a > , append this data to the previous line...
In my example, I would then get:
.06669701$-.1672469$.02157899$.0346167$.65879324$.91614802$.45012441$r
+s11080516
-.05563282$-.00141932$.00036263$.00035752$.00541792$.00345471$.9269254
+3$rs11080530
-.00042649$-.00475721$.00167316$.00182299$.99057815$.90393977$.6990673
+3$rs11080537
.10901125$.0361255$.02148475$.00853908$.74113541$.45908988$.68361003$r
+s11080542
-.03866776$-.05004879$.00185491$.00145606$.38131545$.36141448$.1755140
+3$rs11080557
-.004521$.01312692$.00033174$.00070174$.77873394$.88615378$.63499741$r
+s1108056
.0339248$.02398934$.00276444$.00303152$.80478053$.55026576$.67512938$r
+s11080561

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So, the obvious part of the code would be something like:
while(<>)
{
  if($_=~/^> ([\d\.\-]+)/)
  {
     $part_to_attach=$1;
  }
}

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but I am stuck as to how to paste it in the line above.

In reply to append data to previous line by Anonymous Monk

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