RE: Search for a word in between words

If you know that the word you're looking for is going to be the next line
after 'installation', you can try this:

open(INFILE,"file.txt");
while(<INFILE>){
   chomp($_);
   if($_ eq "Installation"){
      $word = <INFILE>; #assign the next line to the $word variable
	chomp $word;
	print $word;
      <INFILE>; #read past one more line to skip the next "installation"
   }
}

-----Original Message-----
From: Agustin Rivera [mailto:lists@eleqtriq.ws]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:25 AM
To: Allison Ogle; beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Search for a word in between words


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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• Search for a word in between words by Allison Ogle
• RE: Search for a word in between words by Timothy Johnson
• Re: Search for a word in between words by John W. Krahn
• Re: Search for a word in between words by Agustin Rivera