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Your main loop can be rewritten as while (<$ifh>) { print $ofh $_ if /^$pat/; } You won't get the diagnostic on bad readline, but that's not going to happen on a modern OS unless the hardware is failing while you read the file.

Warren Young
– Warren Young

2012-06-09 23:52:52 +00:00
Commented Jun 9, 2012 at 23:52
@Warren, thanks for the help. I've changed the script to the simpler loop.

Peter.O
– Peter.O

2012-06-10 00:28:36 +00:00
Commented Jun 10, 2012 at 0:28

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