Hi Monks,

I can't work out what is wrong with my loop. I'm simply iterating through an array called @pids (630 items). I want to get those items that match things in a different array and those that don't seperately.

I get 400 items in @hits as expected but the full 630 items in the @potential_hgt array (when it should be finding 230).

Can someone please advise where i'm going wrong?

cheers

foreach my $orth (@orthologs)   {
        my $hit;
        if ($orth =~ /^A(\d+)/) {
        $hit=$1;
        }
                                                                      
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        for (my $i=0; $i<@pids; $i++)   {
                if ($pids[$i] =~ /$hit/)        {
                        push @hits, $hit;
                }
                else    {
                        push @potential_hgt, $pids[$i];
                }
        }
}

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In reply to for loop trouble by Anonymous Monk

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