My first reaction was to split and grep, but since the numbers are so tightly defined, I think a regex should do,
my @keepers;
open my $fh, '<', '/path/to/file.dat' or die $!;
while (<$fh>) {
while ( /(\d+\.\d+)/g ) {
push @keepers, $_ and last
if $1 >= 296.1 && $1 <= 314.0;
}
}
close $fh or die $!;
The
while (/(foo)/g) construction loops over all the matches, putting the matching text in $1.
Update: Missed the exclusion for 305.1, grep it is:
my @keepers;
open my $fh, '<', '/path/to/file.dat' or die $!;
while (<$fh>) {
my @data = grep {
/^\d+\.\d+$/ && $_ >= 296.1 && $_ <= 314.0
} split ',';
if (@data) {
push @keepers, $_
unless @data == 1 and $data[0] eq '305.1';
}
}
close $fh or die $!;
Update2: CountZero++ is correct, code amended.
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