As borisz says it should work. Add a sanity check to ensure it really contains what you expect like this (note the quotes around the value let you see hidden spaces/newlines which may be the issue) 

warn "Value of \$hashnew{\$com}: '$hashnew{$com}'\n";

while(<FILE1>) { 
    print WFILE $_ if m/$hashnew{$com}/;
}

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A while loop is a more usual way to iterate over a files content and more efficient that your foreach. Newlines remain attached so you don't need to add one when you print the file out (unless you are using -l switch)

On unix you could get the same functionality of this snippet with something like grep context file1 > wfile

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: File parsing by tachyon
in thread File parsing by sashac88

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