#!/agl/tools/perl/bin/perl my $data_file = '/data/aww/cgi-bin/diana.txt'; my $identifier1 = '1696'; my $identifier2 = '162x'; my $identifier3 = '1640'; open(FILE, "$data_file") || die("Could not open file: $!"); while (){ my (@fields) = split(/\s+/,$_); foreach my $line(@fields){ if ($line eq $identifier1 or $line eq $identifier2 or $line eq $identifier3) { print "$line mama";} }} close FILE;