use warnings; use strict; my ($start, $lastp, $lastv); while ( my $line = ){ my ( $pointer, $value ) = split /\s+/, $line; flush() if ( $value <= 4 or $value > 4 && $value < $lastv ); $start = $pointer unless ( defined $start || $value <= 4 ); ( $lastp, $lastv ) = ( $pointer, $value ); } flush(); sub flush { if ( defined $start ){ printf "%d %d (which is %d + 50) %d\n", $start, $lastp + 50, $lastp, $lastv; } undef $_ for ( $start, $lastp, $lastv ); } __DATA__ 109026 3 109027 28 109028 30 116958 15 116960 35 116961 39 116962 70 116963 72 147184 2 147588 1 153087 32