On Apr 3, Hans Holtan said: >I don't know if this is too general for your purposes, but this >should look through a whole file and find anyplace that the word >"running" appear in three consecutive lines.
Actually, the /g switch there might make it break; I'd remove it. > ($all_lines[$_] =~ m/running/gi) and > ($all_lines[($_+1)] =~ m/running/gi) and > ($all_lines[($_+2)] =~ m/running/gi) -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]