in reply to probably stupid mistake

Since you didn't show us any of your input, we can not reproduce your problem very easily (if at all). Please add a few relevant lines of your input files.

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Re^2: probably stupid mistake
by gogoglou (Beadle) on Apr 01, 2011 at 13:52 UTC

    oh sorry, well the contents of the first file looks like this (its going to be larger, not that it should matter): 

    GRB2
AFF4
GGGB
C7orf42

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    and of the second file like these

    KEGG_PATHWAY    hsa04722:Neurotrophin signaling pathway    33    0.147
+86271171251902    4,04E+09    GRB2, CAMK2G, NFKB1, MAPKAPK2, MAGED1, 
+KRAS, MAP3K3, MAP3K1, BCL2, RAC1, GAB1, RHOA, CAMK2D, SH2B3, NGFRAP1,
+ SHC1, MAP2K7, FRS2, PIK3R1, IRS2, RELA, YWHAB, YWHAE, TP73, NRAS, MA
+PK1, CRKL, JUN, NTRK2, CALM3, MAPK9, SORT1, RAP1A    575    124    50
+85    2.353.506.311.360.440    6,83E+11    6,83E+11    0.004929324234
+03758
KEGG_PATHWAY    hsa05200:Pathways in cancer    63    0.2822833587239  
+  1,86E+10    FGF18, FGF5, PPARD, FGF9, NFKB1, FGF13, PTEN, CCNE2, AC
+VR1B, MAX, CDKN2B, RHOA, RALB, RALA, FAS, TPR, CHUK, RELA, RXRA, LEF1
+, CDK6, RB1, STK4, DAPK1, JUP, MAPK1, CCDC6, CRKL, HIF1A, NCOA4, JUN,
+ VEGFA, MAPK9, TRAF1, WNT5A, APC2, XIAP, GRB2, IGF1R, KRAS, ITGAV, BC
+L2, RAC1, RUNX1, PIK3R1, APC, CEBPA, COL4A4, FZD8, COL4A1, IL8, VHL, 
+CREBBP, TGFBR2, SMAD2, FZD5, STAT3, NRAS, RASSF5, CDKN1B, ITGA6, RASS
+F1, JAK1    575    328    5085    16.985.949.098.621.400    0.0031423
+34832759053    0.0010485440045103767    0.02269450903600312
KEGG_PATHWAY    hsa04310:Wnt signaling pathway    35    0.156824088179
+94445    4,76E+10    WNT5A, PPARD, APC2, PPP2R5A, CAMK2G, PPP2R5C, PP
+P3R1, RAC1, NFAT5, PPP3CB, RHOA, CAMK2D, FRAT2, PRKACA, CHP, PLCB1, F
+BXW11, APC, FZD8, VANGL1, NLK, VANGL2, CREBBP, LEF1, SMAD2, FZD5, SEN
+P2, SFRP5, SFRP1, CCND2, CSNK1E, JUN, MAPK9, SIAH1, PPP2R5E    575   
+ 151    5085    20.498.128.419.234.000    0.008008272140318184    0.0
+02008108692225119    0.05796850410908494

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      When I run your code using your 2 input files, I get the following output: 
      success
success

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      You need to describe in much more detail what problem you are having.
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        Yes, Your code works properly for me too.
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        the problem I am having is that although I also want to get success success (or basically instead of printing that to print $fields1 and $line2 if the if statement is true), I am not getting anything at all

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