Let's see if I understood everything:

foreach (@w) {
  print "working with $_... ";
  /^>>/                and do { print "error message\n"; next };
  /^\s*([<>])\s*(\S+)/ and do { print "separated '$1' from '$2'\n"; ne
+xt };
  /^\s*\|/             and do { print "pipefront\n"; next };
  /\|\s*$/             and do { print "pipeend\n"; next };
  print "\n";
}
__END__
working with >test.txt... separated '>' from 'test.txt'
working with <test.txt... separated '<' from 'test.txt'
working with >>test.txt... error message
working with  | test... pipefront
working with test |... pipeend

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This probably needs more refinement but I think I'll leave that to you ;).

Update: Code beautification.

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David Serrano

In reply to Re: searching the strings by Hue-Bond
in thread searching the strings by singam

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