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You need to select the bill number for $currBill. Your current regex match patterns don't include capture brackets so there is no meaningfull value in $1. Try something like these:

  if (/^1010100.{17}(.{13})/) {

  } elsif (/^3010330.{17}(.{13})/) {

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Re^6: split file
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 14, 2006 at 20:18 UTC
    That doesn't seem to work for me. It outputs the original file as before. Also, what does the . represent? I'm not too good with regular expressions.

    Thanks.
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