Hi,

I'm a newbie to Perl and need help with a script or at least getting started. The reason I want to do this in perl is because these files at times can be rather larger.

I have 2 files with data (see below).

File1

5 field per line, each field is separated by a space.

The text field is 1 word.

# # # text #

11111111111111111111 22222222222 3333333333333333 text 44444

File 2

4 field per line, each field is separated by a comma.

The first 2 numbers are a range.

The last 2 text fields can have 1-4 words per field.

#,#,text,text

11111111111111,44444444444444,"text text","text text text"

I need to find where the number in file1/column3 (3333333333333333) falls into the range in file2/column 1 and 2 by matching left to right.

So for this example this is a match because 1 is < 3 and 4 is > 3.

Now I need to take the whole line in file1 append the 2 text fields in file 2 to the end of the line and send to output file.

End result in new output file:

11111111111111111111 22222222222 3333333333333333 DVL0005c 44444 “text text” “text text text"

In reply to Please Help! by stockbr

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