Both of these work great (thanks):

next if $_ =~ /(^20$|^80$|^Header$)/;
next if m/^(?:Header|[28]0)$/;

So now my results are:
bash-2.03$ ./clean.pl data.txt 
10
5201
8001
0
3802
bash-2.03$ 

How can you have the parsed info printed? 
Can you still use the $_??


So the goal would be:
bash-2.03$ ./clean.pl data.txt 
10
5201
8001
0
3802
##The Rest##
Header
20
80
bash-2.03$

I thought I could do this:

#!/bin/perl
 use strict;
 use warnings;

   while( <> ) {      #read from stdin one line or record at a time
next if $_ =~ /(^20$|^80$|^Header$)/;
print ;
if ($_ == /(^20$|^80$|^Header$)/){
$rest = $_;
print "##The Rest##\n";
print $rest;
 }
}

data.txt:
Header
10
20
5201
8001
0
80
3802

BUT lol... Its not working:
bash-2.03$ ./clean.pl data.txt 
10
5201
8001
0
##The Rest##
0
3802
bash-2.03$

Help if you can..... Thanks up front.... 

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Apr 22, 2004 6:59 AM
To: rmck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: next if question

On Apr 22, 2004, at 8:54 AM, rmck wrote:

> hi,
>
> I have a while statement that does a next if a match is made against a 
> reg exprerssion of some numbers.
>
>
> data file:
> Header
> 10
> 20
> 5201
> 8001
> 0
> 80
> 3802
>
>
>
> #!/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
>    while( <> ) {                           #read from stdin one line 
> or record at a time.
> next if $_ =~ /(20|80|Header|)/;  # =~ means match not equal to.
> print ;
>   }
>
> results:
> bash-2.03$ ./clean.pl data.txt
> 10
> 0
> bash-2.03$
>
> I would like it to have the results as so:
> 10
> 5201
> 0
> 8001
> 3802
>
>
> How do I force my reg exp to match only 20, and 80. Not 8001 or 5201?

next if m/^(?:Header|[28]0)$/;

Hope that helps.

James


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