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NovMonk,
This is fairly common task. Often what is desired is to only do something between two lines within a file. I often recommend using an off/on flag.

my $flag = 0;
while ( <INPUT> ) {
    chomp;
    if ( /pattern/ ) {
        $flag = 1;
        next;
    }
    next if ! $flag;
    # what you want to do goes here
}
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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Processing lines after a pattern in a while loop by Limbic~Region
in thread Processing lines after a pattern in a while loop by NovMonk

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