#!/usr/local/bin/perl my ($in_filename, @records) = 'graph_set.out'; { local $/ = ' PLUTO4 finished'; my $start = ' Final graph set matrix'; open IN, '<' $in_filename or die "Can't open $in_filename: ", $!; @records = map { substr $_, index( $_, $start) + length( $start} } ; chomp @records; close (IN); }