Maybe you are overwriting $1, your loop seems strange to me

while (<ISH>){
my $a;
my $b = '#';
my $c;
my $x;
  if (m/DEV_STAGE\t(.*?)\n/g)        {$a= $1; print OUT "a is: ",$a}
  elsif (m/PREDICTED_GENE\t(.*?)\n/g){$b =$1; print OUT "b is: ",$b}
  elsif (m/\tSTAINED_REGION:\t(.*?)\tSTAINED_MOL:\t(.*?)\n/g) {
             $c = $1; print OUT "c is: ",$c;
             $x = $2; print OUT "x is: ",$x;
             }   
  else {}
}

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but your real problem is probably this:

open (OUT, ">", "out.txt")

You make a first pass to the loop and print to OUT

Then you examine the second line, make a second loop and OVERWRITE the output file with the actual values, $a is lost now

Then you make a third pass and OVERWRITE AGAIN, $b is lost... etc

Solution: use '>>' instead '>' and put each print inside its own if-elsif block

In reply to Re: Extract from text file by pvaldes
in thread Extract from text file by mocnii

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