On Feb 9, 8:08 am, clay.lov...@carquest.com (Clay Lovett) wrote: > I have inherited a script that processes the cron and comments stuff out for > month end processing. We have added some store that do not run the same > monthly calendar as the rest of the stores. What I need to know is how to add > a start and a finish section to the code so that it only processes the > section I want it to.
... snip ... while (<CRONDMP>) { if ( /pattern1/ ... /pattern2/ ) { # do something here, like print " matched: $_"; } else { # do something different print; } } You can also match on line number: if ( $. == 100 ... $. == 150 ) { ... } or a combination: if ( $. == 200 ... /^your reg[ex]/ ) { ... } HTH. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/