Now let's say I specify $var on (STDIN). The $var would be the phone number in the line "Hit me on my pager". Now each section has a different amount of lines and the text for some of the lines is different in each section except for the "Hit me on my pager" line. Now if I do a match on that number and I wanted to print the section head if the number is found and a few selected lines from each heading how would I go about telling PERL that for "MEANINGLESS TEXT" "Bob is cool" is line3 and "Bill is dumb" is line4 and for "ALTERNATIVE TEXT" - "Ted is cruel" is line5 and "Sally should buy a muzzle" is line7 with all this text being in the same file so I can do something roughly equivalent to the following. Here's why I can't do a match on certain lines and I can only specify the line to print. Let's say under "MEANINGLESS TEXT" line4 is what I want to print but it won't always say "Bill is dumb" tommorow it might say "Sally is dumb" I USED ASTERISKS FOR LT AND GT BRACKETS SO THEY DON'T GET HTMLIFIEDMEANINGLESS TEXT Bob is cool Bill is dumb Ted is cruel Sally wines allot Hit me on my pager 9207882332 I can't see the headlights. I'm blind now. ALTERNATIVE TEXT Turtles are faster than Bill's thought process Bill is dumb Ted is cruel Ted needs to get hit by a bus Sally should buy a muzzle Hit me on my pager 9207882332 I hate brights
(My dilemma is an if statement with the (and) operator won't match both scalars it only matches the first scalar $var or vice versa if I switched their positions, and the fact that I don't know how to tell PERL what and where a line is.print "What number?"; chomp($var = *STDIN*); $var1 = "MEANINGLESS TEXT"; $var2 = "ALTERNATIVE TEXT"; $line3 = (However you tell PERL that this is line1 of the "MEANINGLESS + TEXT" record block); $line4 = (However you tell PERL that this is line4 of the "MEANINGLESS + TEXT" record block); $line5 = (However you tell PERL that this is line5 of the "ALTERNATIVE + TEXT" record block); $line7 = (However you tell PERL that this is line7 of the "ALTERNATIVE + TEXT" record block); open(FILE, "resultsdata"); while (*FILE*) { if (/$var/ && /$var1/) { print "$var1\n"; print "$line3\n"; print "$line4\n"; if (/$var/ && /$var2/) { print "$var2\n"; print "$line5\n"; print "$line7\n"; } } }
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