open(F, "grep 'WARNING<\/font>' $mydir/$myfile".".|wc|awk '{print \$1}'| ") ; while () { chomp(); $received_warn=$_; } close F; #### $a = 'a'; if ($a == 'b' or $a == 'c') { print "True\n"; } #### if ($a = 'b') { print "True\n"; }