I get the error message: "Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex". What is it you want the regex to do? Maybe there's a different way to do it.

Also, you should "use strict; use warnings;" and indentation is good for the soul. And here's a more perlish way to process a file line-by line without loading it all into memory first, using the safer three-argument open with error-checking:

open my $fh, '<', 'hostdata.txt' or die $!;
while( my $hdb2 = <$fh> ){
  # do stuff with $hdb2
}
close $fh;

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In reply to Re: Multiple Rows by aaron_baugher
in thread Multiple Rows by PilotinControl

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