Perhaps something as simple as this:
my $name = "file000";
open STDOUT, ">>file000" or die "cannot append to file000: $!";
while (<>) {
if (/Experiment/) {
open STDOUT, ">>".(++$name) or die "Cannot append to $name: $!";
}
print;
if (/Reagent Lot/) {
open STDOUT, ">>file000" or die "Cannot re-append to file000: $!";
}
}
This puts each new section into
file001,
file002,
file003,
and so on, and anything outside those sections into
file000.
Will that do, or are there other secret requirements? {grin}
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
Update: oops, I had an off-by-one error, and it's fixed now.
Maybe I need to read up on pre-increment vs post-increment
again. {grin}
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