Dear All, I'm not a very strong perl programmer but need to grep data from a large file where I have multiple outputs. Used the following example in ggrep to get my correct output:

 cat file.large | ggrep country | ggrep city1 | ggrep street1 | ggrep -v name1

Horrilbe, I know.... but need to get the value of name2 only as output. File text looks sort of:

Country City  Street1 number1 name1
Country City1 Street1 number1 name2
Country City1 Street1 number2 name3
Country City1 Street2 number1 name4
Country City1 Street2 number1 name5

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The output of the info in the 2nd line and going into $myoutput1 as:

Country City Street1 number1 name2

The last output required is "$thenameis" will just be name2 from the file. But this can be done with

$thenameis = $myoutput1[4]; ##This should be correct..

PS this grep will be in a foreach loop. Any ideas.. thank you

In reply to Need to multi grep and grep exclude in perl. by Frits

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