#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -slw $|++; use strict; use vars qw/%data/; open (LST, "$ARGV[0]") or die "\n$0 Error => $^E\n"; chomp (my @unclean = ); print"size : $#unclean"; for (@unclean) { if ($_ =~ /^\d+\s+/) { print "First 1 : $_\n"; #print "Line 2 #print "Line 3 #print "Line 4 print "____________________________________\n"; } }