#!/perl/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @files = ; foreach my $file ( @files ) { open my $file_h, '<', $file or die "Can't open $file: $!"; while ( <$file_h> ) { print "$file $_" if /\b1203\b/; print "$file $_" if /\b1204\b/; print "$file $_" if /\b1207\b/; } }