Re: print to output problem

You want the print statement outside of your while loop

push (@outLines, $val);
}
print OUT  @outLines;
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Otherwise it print the contents of @outLines for each line
HTH

Sweetblood

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Re^2: print to output problem by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2004 at 16:36 UTC
i have multiple entries in my input file to look at, so if i was to print outside the while loop, surely i will only be printing the last loop through the input?	[reply]
Re^3: print to output problem by Joost (Canon) on Jul 07, 2004 at 16:39 UTC
Don't guess, read the documentation. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^3: print to output problem by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2004 at 16:40 UTC
here is my input file: `# input for ....find 17th and 18th number # input for .... again Nd RES PDB val 1 140 31 20.0 1 142 33 0.0 1 143 34 10.0 1 144 35 0.0` [download] say 17th number is 143, would print out 10 on first loop then say 17th number is 140 would print 20 on second	[reply] [d/l]