I adjusted the code to use HTML::TableReader which eliminated the part of my code that used switching and made it a little more tolerable to look at.

Whats weird is I'm still getting "Duplicate detected messages thrown up when on items with no duplicates, and weirdly, it prints one iteration too late, but still manages to print its name...;
example: (part of output)

hsa-miR-382 shortens to hsa-miR-382
hsa-miR-99b* shortens to hsa-miR-99b
Duplicate Detected! hsa-miR-382
hsa-miR-196b shortens to hsa-miR-196b

In reply to Re^4: Having a problem with my code! by kotoroshinoto
in thread Having a problem with my code! by kotoroshinoto

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