All that typing though! And I thought perl programmers were supposed to be lazy :-) I might have done it like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -n -l
print join(' ', $i++, (split)[1,3,4,11,13]) if / physio_start /;

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The only difference is that his line counter starts at zero, and $. will start at one, which may or may not matter. And his explicitly opening $ARGV[0] is a bit different than using <> (albeit implicitly) here. And using explicit variables (as he does) documents what they are a bit better than using an anonymous array (like I have here), but if that's a concern, I might cut n paste a short description of all the fields (whether I use'em or not) into a comment line.

Update:Fixed a bug, he was counting output rows, not input records, so nevermind about $. :-) 

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ooo  O\O  ooo tilly was here :,(

In reply to Re: Perl Article on O'Reilly by runrig
in thread Perl Article on O'Reilly by TStanley

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