Your example code is problematic. Shouldn't \n be doublequoted?

I had no problems with using /^/ for the beginning of a line - maybe because I processed the records line by line. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

$/ = "#";
while (<DATA>) {
    next if $. == 1; # Skipt the empty "first" record;

    my @lines = split /\n/;
    my ($vlan, $ifconfig) = (0, 0);

    for (@lines) {
        if (/^hostname/) {
            print "$_\n";

        } elsif (/^vlan/) {
            $vlan++ for m/\S+/g;
            $vlan -= 3;

        } elsif (/^ifconfig/) {
            $ifconfig++ for m/\S+/g;
            $ifconfig -= 3;
        }
    }
    print "vlan $vlan\nifconfig $ifconfig\n";
    print "WRONG!!!\n" if $vlan != $ifconfig;
}

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In reply to Re: Help with logic/syntax by choroba
in thread Help with logic/syntax by randompug

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