in reply to Re^3: troubleshooting filehandle
in thread troubleshooting filehandle

Oh I see what you mean now Jenda. So then what I think I need to do is make the if condition iterate over every line of the text file until it finds the matching syntax, yes? The first line in DATA:
#bg at,super
does not match any conditions:
if ((/#bg\s$input/ .. /#be\s$input/) =~ /^\d+(?<!^1)$/)
or
 elsif (/bb\s$input/)
and I dont want it to either.
my conditions:

if ((/#bg\s$input/ .. /#be\s$input/) =~ /^\d+(?<!^1)$/) { print $_; }


elsif (/bb\s$input/) { print $_; last; }


else { print "nope".$_; last; }


So the first if condition should print everything between
/#bg\s$input/
and
/#be\s$input/
and this part:
/^\d+(?<!^1)$/
will get rid of the starting and ending points: "/#bg\s$input/ and /#be\s$input/",
leaving everything else in between. Am I way off track here?