Oh I see what you mean now Jenda. So then what I think I need to do is make the if condition iterate over every line of the text file until it finds the matching syntax, yes? The first line in DATA:
#bg at,super
does not match any conditions:
if ((/#bg\s$input/ .. /#be\s$input/) =~ /^\d+(?<!^1)$/)
or
 elsif (/bb\s$input/)
and I dont want it to either.
my conditions:

if ((/#bg\s$input/ .. /#be\s$input/) =~ /^\d+(?<!^1)$/)  {
     print $_;
  }

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elsif (/bb\s$input/) {
     print $_;
     last;
     }

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   else
       {
       print "nope".$_;
       last;
       }

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So the first if condition should print everything between
/#bg\s$input/
and
/#be\s$input/
and this part:
/^\d+(?<!^1)$/
will get rid of the starting and ending points: "/#bg\s$input/ and /#be\s$input/",
leaving everything else in between. Am I way off track here?

In reply to Re^4: troubleshooting filehandle by kwn
in thread troubleshooting filehandle by kwn

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