What is the easiest method to search in a file for a particular term, and output a desired field. For example, in awk, I would simply do:
awk '/searchterm/ {print $2}' input.txt to get my result. But in Perl, the shortest way I could find achieve the same result was: $inputfile=input.txt; open(IFILE, $inputfile) or die "Could not open $inputfile\n"; map { if ( /searchterm/ ) {$result=substr($_, 17, 6);} } <IFILE>; print "$result\n"; close IFILE; It just seems like a lot of code to do such a simple task. This one-liner does pretty much what I would want but I do not know how to convert it to a script. perl -lane 'print $F[2] if /searchterm/' input.txt Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/