A general maxim in programming is don't repeat yourself (usually abbreviated to DRY). I find this particularly relevant in Perl.

Blazar has already commented on your use of unnecessary C-style for loops and a clumsy, long sequence of elsif's.

You can replace

for ($count = 0; $count<=$#Comment; $count++) { #clumsy, long sequence of elsif's }

with

my @fields = qw/ Sensor Signal_level AUL ALL Recipe Wafer_slot Step_Value /; die "I did not expect " . @Comment . " columns!" unless @fields == @Comment; for my $value ( @Comment ) { print shift @fields, " = $value\n"; }

In reply to Re: Parsing Script by FunkyMonk
in thread Parsing Script by phimtau123

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