Sean Sugrue wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help me,
> 
> I am trying to pick up the text on the next line if the line before it has a 
>"description" tag.
> 
> while(<input_file>
> {
>   if( /description/i ){
>    @array = nextline in the file;

Do you want to use an array to hold one line or do you want all the
lines that match in the array?

     $nextline = <input_file>;

Or:

     push @array, scalar <input_file>;


>         some processing here}
> 
>    }
> 
> ##############################
> 
> But it would even be better if
> 
> ##############################
> 
> while(<input_file>
> {
>  if( /test_function/i){
>   next line until if( /description/i ){
>    @array = nextline in the file;
>         some processing here;}}
> 
>    }

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish here.



John
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