Allison Ogle wrote: > > 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? while ( <FILE> ) { chomp; if ( /^Installation$/ ) { my $word = <FILE>; print "$word\n"; last; } } John -- use Perl; program fulfillmentThread Previous | Thread Next