Well, some detail on what went wrong would help....

When I tried it against the sample data in your original post, I noticed two things:

  1. You're testing for gi| at the beginning of the line, but your @array1 values start with >gi|. I had to remove the >; you'll have to either fix the $key = line to match your data, or fix the data to match your test...
  2. You're populating a single element in array2. If you want each number to be an element of the array, you need to use qw(...), not qq(...).

If these are both copy-and-paste artifacts, pleave provide more detail on what the error is.

Do not rebuke them with harsh words ... but rather lead them gently - with URLs - so that they may learn wisdom.

In reply to Re^3: retrieving in the correct order by VSarkiss
in thread retrieving in the correct order by Anonymous Monk

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