ssandv,
Ok, this is pretty simple and straight forward. The regex captures the
capital letter(word) at the beginning of the line and checks for the next
line that begins with a capital word. When it comes across that line
it starts printing again?
When I run it
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
=cut
The script parses the targeting.gb file and creates a new file
that contains removes the comment info.
=cut

open(my $in, "C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/TARGETING.gb");
open(my $out, ">C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/TARGET.gb");
my $state;
while(my $line =<$in>){    
    if ($line=~/^([A-Z]+)/) {
        $state=$1;        
    }
    print $out $line unless $state eq "COMMENT";
}
close $in;
close $out

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The file is not being parsed. The out file is still the same as the in.
Any idea?
LomSpace

In reply to Re^4: skipping lines when parsing a file by lomSpace
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