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while(<IN>)
{
$firstword=$middleword;
$middleword=$lastword;
$lastword=$_;
if ($firstword eq "Installation" && $lastword eq "Installation")
{
print "FOUND $middleword\n";
}
Would that work?
Regards,`
Agustin Rivera
Webmaster, Pollstar.com
http://www.pollstar.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison Ogle" <aogle@ti.com>
To: <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Search for a word in between words
>
>
> To give you even more information, in my datafile, the word that I am
> searching for is 'marked' by the word in the line before it. For example,
> the lines in my datafile look like..
>
> line 1
> line 2
> line 2
> Installation
> example
> Installation
> line 4
> line 5
> line 6
>
> and all I want is the word in between the words Installation. Because I
> don't know what the word in between the words Installation will be, I'm
not
> actually searching for the word Installation but for the word in the next
> line after Installation. Does that make sense? Any ideas?
>
>
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