Bob -
Thanks, I'll investigate that.
I'm also hoping that the list will tell me how to do it by incrementing the
proper special variable. I could swear that I've done that before, and have
found it useful in other contexts.
-- Josh
-- On 11/23/02 12:39 PM, "Mystik gotan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use truncate() to hop to a 2nd line. The pattern match wil do.
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> Sincerly,
> Bob Erinkveld
> (Webmaster Insane Hosts)
> www.insane-hosts.net
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>> From: Joshua Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Match pattern and print next line
>> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:54:48 -0600
>>
>> Hi All;
>>
>> I'm trying to match a pattern in a text file and then print out the next
>> line in that file. I could swear that I've done this before by incrementing
>> $. to move to the next line. However, the code below is printing out the
>> matched line rather than the next line.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> open (LOG, "./lmelog");
>>
>> for ( <LOG> ) {
>> if ( /- Student Id/){
>> ++$.;
>> print "$_\n";
>>
>> }
>> }
>>
>> I really don't want to save the file into an array, given that it is > 10^6
>> lines long.
>>
>> Please cc me off list with any replies.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Joshua R. Kaufman | Product Development Manager | Impart Knowledge
>> Solutions, Inc. | 312-496-5669, x1003
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