Hi Perl Gurus I'm struggling with a problem which should be fairly easy to solve on but I can't see the wood for the trees. I have a file consisting of records with 5 fields (delimited by |).e.g. 
qw|as|df|gh|kj|dddd
ll|kk|pp|oo|ii|dfghj
eee|ttt|td|fff|ddd|/* gggg
xxx|vvv|c|g|nnn|fff
aaaaaa|hh|qq|ww|iii|zzzz */
ppp|j|x|f|o|zkllk
aaa|g|dde|as|lkjh|mnbv
.
.
and so on

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I have a regex set up to search for patterns in the 5th field of each record and print the record out if found. However I want to skip all records between an occurence of /* and */ in the 5th field. This donates the start and end of a comment which I'm not interested in. These comments can span multiple records. Assume that the input file records are ordered such that a /* always occurs before a */.
Here's the code I've got that tries to do this but is not working. The problem is that the loop bit isn't working so the regex is checked for every time. The regex contains some pattern matches that could be inside a comment block. Hence I'm getting information printed that is inside a comment block. 

 open TXTF,"<$txtf" or die "Can't open $txtf : $!\n";
my $regexp = Regexp::List->new(modifiers => 'i',quotemeta => 0)->list2
+re(@matches);

LOOP: while ($line = <CMDTXTF>) {
   @fld = split /\|/,$line;
   if ($fld[5] =~ /\/\*/) { 
      next LOOP until $fld[5] =~ / \*\//;
   }
      print "$fld[0] $fld[2] sequence=$fld[4] $fld[5]" if $line =~ /$r
+egexp/;
      }
close TXTF;

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Any help appreciated

In reply to while loop logic by Anonymous Monk

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