#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $hacklist = "hack.txt"; open HACK, $hacklist or die "Can't Open $hacklist"; my ($octet, $date); while (){ $octet ||= $_ if /($hacklist =~ m~((\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})~)/; $date ||=$_ if /Date:/; } close HACK; print $date; print $octet;