use strict; use warnings; use English; $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = "\n\t"; while () { next if (m/Julie/); print; } __DATA__ Julie and Jolie were playing in the shadow when a large spider jomped on jolie and started dancing on her head Than something else happened , i don't know why or how... To my surprise Perl saved the day. Thank you Julie! Yet another reason to use Perl.