Hi folks I want to try and do the following. I want go through an array, @seqlist, and for each element $seq, I want to open a file $statfile which has data something like this 
============================================
$seqlist[0]                   somenumber
============================================
sorted tables mixed with some lines of text
. (these data associated with $seqlist[0]
.
.
============================================
$seqlist[1]                   someothernumber
============================================
.
.
.
.. and so on

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What I want to do is grab  $seqlist[0] and sort the data columns associated with $seqlist[0]. These columns have some lines of text interspersed, which I want to get rid of. I think I can handle that using a regex that only searches for lines which have numbers, text and whitespace. I can then sort the data on the basis of of the numbers in one of the columns. What I am not sure about is how to limit this to the data associated with each element of the array?
Thanks
mndoci

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In reply to Regex help: I hope I make sense by mndoci

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