Hello People,
Need some assistance/guidance.
OUTLINE:
Two files (File1 and File2)
File1 has some ids such as
009463_3922_1827
897654_8764_5432
File2 has things along the lines of:
Query= 009463_3922_1827 length=252
        (252 letters)

Sequences producing significant alignments:                      (bits) Value

ref|NZ_ACCL02000008.1| Bryantella formatexigens DSM 14469 B_form...   153   2e-37

Query: 243   cccgcacacg 252
                     |||||||||
Sbjct: 89219 accgcacacg 89228
More stufff here

Query= 009525_3967_2963 length=249 uaccno=FIFOXZ216JYL81
        (249 letters)
AND MORE STUFF HERE
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PROBLEM:
Capture/finding the Ids stored in File1 from file2 is trivial.
What I need to capture "also" is the remaining part.
For example:
This part of the code gives me the line when it has found the match: Query= 009463_3922_1827 length=252 uaccno=FIFOXZ216JUM5H
while ($line2=<INFILE2>)
       {

               if ($line2 =~ /$line1/)
               {
                       print $line2;
               }

Now how can I get to the other lines below this (Query= 009463_3922_1827 length=252 uaccno=FIFOXZ216JUM5H) line.
For example, everything until  
Query= 009525_3967_2963 length=249 uaccno=FIFOXZ216JYL81
        (249 letters)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
a) Few ideas I can think of is using SEEK/tell.
Will this be a efficient way, how much to SEEK, the while loop is reading one line at a time so, some how buffer everything until see the pattern  as Query=.....
How to find the bytes until then?

b) Using read()
How to find the number of byes after the pattern match?

c)Using the metacharacters to read ahead after the pattern match /ID (?=SOMETHING)/
Tried this but with until, but its not working. May be my regex is incorrect.


If any one can just be a push in the write direction--pseudocode etc. it would be much appreciated.

I am not reading the files or going to use array (copying the contents of a file to an array) as the files are big.

How long is file2?   I would tend to read the whole thing into a string and split it at the query delimiter, making up a hash of all the queries.

Here's some code:

Code:

open (FH,"deep.txt"); read(FH,$all,-s "deep.txt"); @parts = split(/(Query = \d+)/,$all); foreach $element(@parts) {      print $ec++,":::",$element,"\n";      }

and in converts this data:

Code:

Title Query = 1234 this is more and so we go one etc Query detaile etc more stuff Query = 7763 a further demo lines of stuff we keep on going Query = 9966 last one See how it goes It's GONE!

Into a list of keys and values:

Code:

Dorothy-2:jul09 grahamellis$ perl deep.pl 0:::Title 1:::Query = 1234 2::: this is more and so we go one etc Query detaile etc more stuff 3:::Query = 7763 4::: a further demo lines of stuff we keep on going 5:::Query = 9966 6::: last one See how it goes It's GONE!

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