Greetings, I've created a hash from an INPUT file and I'm trying to search for each key from the hash in a DATA file. However, I can't get my script to iteratively loop through the DATA file for each key. Instead it loops through DATA once for the first key. Below is some sample data, intended output, and my code. Thank you for any help.
David INPUT... ID1 TEST1 ID2 TEST2 ID3 TEST3 ID4 TEST4 ID5 TEST5 ID6 TEST6 ID7 TEST7 DATA... 1 (GN ID ID LKJLSKJLDK) 2 (GN ID ID5 LKJLSKJLDK) 3 (GN ID LKJLSKJLDK ID3) 4 (GN ID2 ID LKJLSKJLDK) 5 (GN ID ID9 LKJLSKJLDK) 6 (GN ID1 ID LKJLSKJLDK) 7 (GN ID ID8 LKJLSKJLDK) 8 (GN ID0 ID LKJLSKJLDK) 9 (GN ID ID4 LKJLSKJLDK) OUTPUT is: ID1 6 TEST1 OUTPUT should be: ID1 6 TEST1 ID2 4 TEST2 ID3 3 TEST3 ID4 9 TEST4 ID5 2 TEST5 MY CODE... my %genedex; foreach $line (<INPUT>) { my ($gene_name,$remainder) = split(/\t/,$line,2); $genedex{$gene_name} = $remainder; } foreach $gene (sort keys %genedex) { while ($line=<DATA>) { if ($line =~ /$gene/) { ($probe_id) = split(/\s/,$line,2); print "$gene\t$probe_id\t$genedex{$gene}\n"; } } __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>