hi,

ssandv gave you a good pointer. because from the code that you presented you are looping through a whole file and printing stuff, then exiting the loop keeping the file handle opened (which i strongly disapprove), then trying to capture something from the filehandle and then again repeating the first step.you gotta admit you intentions are a bit confusing ;) maybe something like this will help: 

use strict;


...
my $trigger = 0;

while(<$in>){
    print $out $_ if ($trigger == 0);
    $trigger = 1 if ($_=~/match something|or something else/g);
    $trigger = 0 if ($_=~/match something|or something else/g);
}

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this wasn't tested due to having nothing to test it on, but you can try to embed it and try it on a real data to see...

cheers

In reply to Re: skipping lines when parsing a file by baxy77bax
in thread skipping lines when parsing a file by lomSpace

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