#!/usr/bin/perl open (RD, "pick no.txt") or die"Could not open file"; @Read = ; close (RD); open (WR1, ">>Numbers.txt") or die"Could not open file"; for ($i=0; $i<= $#Read; $i++) { if($Read[$i] =~/^Number:/and $Read[$i+1]=~/(\w\w\w\w\w\w-\d\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)/) { $Number = $1; $Number1 = substr ($Number, 7, 9); print "$Number1\n"; print WR1"$Number1\n"; } }