Rob Dixon wrote:

After these changes, the loop looks like this

while (<IN>){
    chomp;
    my @line=split(/\t/);
    if ($line[3] == -1) {
        print OUT "$_\n";
    }
}

You can make it much simpler than that:

while ( <IN> ) {
    print OUT if /\t-1$/;
}




John
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