On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:06, Pat Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am looking at a way of reading a line doing a regex to find the
> specific line then pick out the line, sudo code would be some thing
> like the following:
>
> read in line
> check regex
>
> if regex is correct
> { jump 10 lines
> print the output
> }
>
> any ideas on jumping the 10 lines, how do I ignore the lines in the
> file, and know I'm going the right distance ?
snip
while (<>) {
if (/regex/) {
<> for 1 .. 9; #throw away nine lines
my $line = <>; #get the tenth line
print $line;
}
}
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