----- Original Message ----- From: "FlashMX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 8:31 AM
Subject: re: Using built in Grep
>
> I need to search for a certain string in a datafile and execute some other
code if a match is found.
>
> Do I have to read in the file before I can perform a grep? I thought the
grep works like it would from a command line?
>
> grep "string to search" <FILENAME>
>
This will do what you're asking:
open FILE "<somefile" or die "Can't open somefile: $!";
print grep /somestring|someotherstring/i, <FILE>;
This is probably better, though:
while ($line = <FILE>) {
if ($line =~ /somestring|someotherstring/i) { print $line }}
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