Okay, here is what I've settled on doing. I will work on fine tuning it and cutting out unnecessary steps.

$RID = "MEH|MED|MMD|MMS|CR1|FR1";

open (FIN, "<file.dpf");

my $filecontents = <FIN>;
$filecontents =~ s/($RID)/\n$1/ig;
my @filecontents = split('\n', $filecontents);

my $count = 0;
foreach my $record (@filecontents) {
    print ++$count . "\t$record\n";
}

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What the code is doing right now is spitting out each record, with a tally to the left, so I can see that it is working. Since each record will be on its own line, I don't have to hunt.

Now, just for better understanding, can I do the split without the substitution?

-Travis

v2: Leave it to Tye to find a problem. Okay, I can't do a global split. I think I have a way around it, let me try something.

In reply to RE: Parsing and \G and /g and Stupid User Tricks: Final Solution, v2 by THuG
in thread Parsing and \G and /g and Stupid User Tricks by THuG

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