Thanks for the reply.
That would work in this context, but I'm looking for the more general
answer, mostly just to convince myself that I'm not crazy and have done it
this way before.
--Josh
On 11/23/02 8:44 AM, "Wiggins d'Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could always say <LOG> again inside your if to print the next line.
> Realize that you will not then be able to check that line for the
> string, but if that is ok which it sounds like it is then it should
> work. See below.
>
> Joshua Kaufman wrote:
>> 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";
> print <LOG>;
>
>>
>> }
>> }
>>
>
> http://danconia.org
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