Hi rob, you are right . basically I need to search two different strings in one file which are at different lines. means string1 is on one line and string2 is on another line
can u plz give then actual syntax to achieve this ? that will be really good. regards irfan. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:09 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: search option in perl Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to search a file for a specific string thru perl script. > > for example i want to put following condition in the script. > > --- > first search the string string1 > ----> and if that string found then search for another string string2 > ----> if both the string found then print both the string on shell > prompt Hi Irfan. I think you want to search a file for all lines that contain both string 1 and string2, is that right? This does what you want > perl -n -e "print if /string1/ and /string2/" file But it may be that string1 and string2 can be on separate lines. Please could you calrify for us? Thanks, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
