in reply to Reading from filehandles in a loop and matching lines

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#go to the next line unless the department is R&D.
    next unless$department eq $ARGV[0];

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Unless you invoke this program with an argument of either R&D or HR, you'll see no output.

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Re^2: Reading from filehandles in a loop and matching lines
by ww (Archbishop) on May 06, 2010 at 02:40 UTC
    So too is line 25:
    #since all employees here are male,
    ...unless, of course, "Mrs Julie Fay" is male.
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      You missed this: 

      #go to the next line unless the name starts with "Mr "
    next unless$name =~ /^Mr /;

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