Just looking briefly at it, the following comes to mind. I'm going to make a bit of an assumption in that you just want to keep a copy of the lines, for processing later. 

# $filename is already defined
my (@keptrecords);
open(INFILE, $filename) 
  or die("Can't open $filename for input: $!\n");
while (my $line = <INFILE>) {
    my $tokeep = 0;
    my $checkexclusion = 0;
    my @parts = split(/,/, $line);
    foreach (@parts) {
        $checkexclusion++ if ($_ eq '305.1');
        $tokeep++ if (( 296.1 <= $_ ) and ( $_ <= 314.0 ));
    }
    next if (( $checkexclusion ) and ($tokeep <= 1));
    push(@keptrecords, $line);
}

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Just a thought, based on the idea you presented. Hope that helps....

In reply to Re: Seeking Algorithm by atcroft
in thread Seeking Algorithm by WhiteBird

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