copying more than one line to another file

[cckramer]

When I read file A , it has these lines like that need to be reproduced:



Input a, b, c,

X,Y;



Output m,n

, f,g;



How do I reproduce this in the new file ?

Basically when I read “file A” line by line, I search for first word and if it’s “input” I need to start copying from there till the semicolon appears either in that line or the next line or so.



For a 1 line statement I did the foll: I just need some pointers for a multiline statement.

while ($line = <$inFP>) {

my (@tmp) = split (/\s+/, $line);

 if (($tmp[0] eq "output") && ($tmp[-1] =~ /;$/)) {

  print outFP "$line\n";

 }

}

[KevinADC]

as posted on other forum:

while ($line = <DATA>) {  
   if ($line =~ /^(Input|Output)/) { 
      print $line; 
      while ($line = <DATA>) { 
         if ($line =~ /;\s*$/) { 
            print $line; 
            last; 
         } 
         print $line; 
      } 
   } 
} 
__DATA__ 
Input a, b, c,  
stuff here 
X,Y;  
 
test test 
 
Output m,n  
stuff here 
, f,g; 
 
test test

if the semi-colon really is the last thing before the line ending you can remove \s* in this regexp:

if ($line =~ /;\s*$/) {

[cckramer]

Appreciate the help offered.Also for trying to correct my ways in the other forum.