Hi I was wondering if you could help with a couple last things. I have modified the code to take input from a file and also I have commented out everything to make sure I understand it. And by the way I have gone with the first method you provided.

My first problem is getting the output to a new file rather than to the terminal. I have tried several different methods of this and have failed.

The second problem is in the data itself. Every once in a while the data may look like this because there are two many of the tags for one id:

10GBE_ADDR1 R3629.2 (ANALOG:107) R3633.1 (ANALOG:107)

U212.19 (INPUT:107)

Basically it will start a new line to write all of the tags. I am not sure how to recognize that there is no id and how to then make the following tags attribute themselves back to the previous id. And here is the code I used.

open FILE, '<', "golden.rpt" or "die unable to open read file $!";

while (my $line = <FILE>)
{
  next if $line =~ /^\s*$/; #skip blank lines
  next if $line =~ /#/; #Skip comments
   
  my ($netname, @referencedesignators) = split ' ', $line; #split file
+ into a scalar for netname and put all of the reference designators i
+nto an array
  
  my @singlereference;
  while (@referencedesignators)
  {
     my $firstpart = shift @referencedesignators; #split array into tw
+o scalars one for the letter then number sequence and the other for t
+he analog thing
     my $secondpart = shift @referencedesignators;
     push @singlereference, "$firstpart $secondpart"; #push these two 
+scalars to form a pair. Each pair is one reference designator. These 
+pairs form an array.
  }
  
  @singlereference = sort {$a <=> $b} @singlereference; #sort by ascen
+ding
  
  foreach my $col (@singlereference)
  {
     
     print "$netname $col\n"; #print the netname along with each colum
+n of the array containing the singlereference designators. 
     
  }


}  




print "done\n";

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