so a different way to do this is with a flag and What I did was use the $on as a flag to see when to stop printing and to start so hope this helps you! if anyone knows how to a prompt string in the find part: where you search for the word you want to start from and end at if anyone can give me that then thank you! also the die thing i was told that you can have it on the same line as the open I'm relatively new to Perl so if you can also give me some pointers and shortcuts.
#!/\\perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;
# Put the file name in a string variable
# so we can use it both to open the file
# and to refer to in an error message
# if needed.
my $fileName ;
my $success ;
my $on = 0;
# Hard-code the name of the file we're going to read.
# This is the script itself.
$fileName = '/\\rat09awp\ccscripts\Islam\test.log';
# Attempt to open the file. We create a file handle called "IN".
# Open returns a true value if it succeeded, an undefined
# value if it didn't succeed.
$success = open( IN, "<$fileName" );
while ( <IN> ){
if ($_ =~ /Duplicate remedy_id:/){
print $_;
$on = 1;
}
elsif($on){
if ($_ =~ /Duplicate ip_address:/) {
last;
}
else{ print $_;}
}
# We have read all the lines from the file.
# Close the file.
}
close( IN );