#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print " please enter the domain name: "; my $targetdomain = ; chomp $targetdomain; my $file = "/home/blackice/hello"; open HAN,$file || die "error opening file: $!"; my @fileContent = ; close(HAN); for( my $i = 0; $i < @fileContent; $i++ ){ if( $fileContent[$i] =~ m/^zone\s+"$targetdomain"/ ){ $fileContent[$i] =~ s/\n/\n#/g; } } open HAN, ">$file"; print HAN @fileContent; close(HAN);