I wish to loop through multiple files, and their respective lines in the file. I have done is successfully already. Want I want to do now is remove lines in a file based on a numeric value in one of the columns. If I have an input such as this: 
XP.sta1    -41.5166    0.0513    0.6842    0.1794    0  CPHI.BHZ   300
+.2458   -42.2436
 XP.sta2      3.5972    0.0500    0.7699    0.1213    0  E000.BHZ   30
+0.5616     2.5545
 XP.sta3      3.7112    0.0267    0.7813    0.1457    0  E002.BHZ   30
+0.6140     2.6160
 XP.sta4      4.2891    0.0214    0.6870    0.1308    0  E004.BHZ   30
+1.2073     2.6006

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I want to remove the line IF the 8th column numeric value is < -10 or > 10. Here's my code so far: 
open(TABLEC,$mFile);
    @tablec = <TABLEC>;
    for ($j = 2; $j < $stop; $j++) {
       chomp ($tablec[$j]);
       ($netSta,$delayTime) = (split /\s+/,$tablec[$j])[1,9];
       next if $delayTime < -10 or $delayTime > 10;

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I am reading through multiple files, and for lines in between 2 and "stop" I want to remove that line if the 8th column value is <-10 or > 10. From the input above, I want to remove the line beginning with XP.sta1, since the 8th column is -40. How do I do this without simply deleting the 8th column value? This script is slightly modified, but if I run with the above code structure, the output is this: 
 XP.sta1    -41.5166    0.0513    0.6842    0.1794    0  CPHI.BHZ   30
+0.2458   2.5545
 XP.sta2      3.5972    0.0500    0.7699    0.1213    0  E000.BHZ   30
+0.5616    2.6160
 XP.sta3      3.7112    0.0267    0.7813    0.1457    0  E002.BHZ   30
+0.6140     2.6006
 XP.sta4      4.2891    0.0214    0.6870    0.1308    0  E004.BHZ   30
+1.2073

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Where in the 8th column, that value of -42.4326 is removed, but not the entire line. How do I delete the entire line, rather than just the value in column 8? Thanks for the help.

In reply to Remove line from file based on numeric column value by Bama_Perl

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