Is it possible that some blank lines exist, or header or footer lines that don't have all the fields?

That happens pretty often in files I deal with. In that case, you have 2 options.

If none of the header/footer/blank lines have all the fields, you can just do 

if(@array>14) {
     print STDOUT "$array[13]\t$array[14]\n";
     print OUTFILE ....
}

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(assuming you open OUTFILE above the loop, and want to write all these items to it, as someone else suggested...)

If you have a "header" type line, or line of dividers or something like that, then you'll have to add some checks to skip this, like: 

while(<FILEHANDLE>) {
    next if /------/;  # skip divider line
    next if /SALES/;   # skip header line
    next if /TOTAL/;   # skip summary line
    next if /^$/;      # skip blank lines
...
}

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with the correct regular expressions for your data, of course. Make sure that SALES can never appear on a normal line, for instance, if you're going to use that as a screen.

Hope this helps!
--
Mike

In reply to Filter for the lines where your data is... by RMGir
in thread hashes of arrays ?? by lolly

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