Re: Perl Recursion

[jwkrahn]

in reply to Perl Recursion

    my @a=`awk '\$1 ~ /$_[0]/' useful_dat.tab |cut -f 2,3|sort|uniq`:
    foreach (@a){
        my @b=split(/\t/,$_);
        if($b[1] eq 'Activation'){

You don't chomp the lines from useful_dat.tab so "Activation\n" will never be equal to 'Activation'.

You should probably store the contents of useful_dat.tab in a hash instead of using an external process to read the same file multiple times.