It's been a while since I've sat down and written any Perl (as will become obvious).

I'm using a regexp to parse thru a file that contains output from a grep. The grep was on the pattern "*.pl" -- I went and greped for all html files that are calling perl scripts on my site.

I'm trying to do a pattern match for "pl", and print the match, which hopefully will give me a nice list of all the perl scripts with no extraneous html.

Here's the code that doesn't get a match for anything (right now I'm just printing to stdout until I figure out why the regexp isn't matching): 

#!/usr/bin/perl


open FILE, "grepfile" or die "where is grepfile?";

while ( $blah = <FILE> ) {

$blah =~ /pl/;

if ($1) {

print $1

} else {

print "no match"

}
}

print $1;

close FILE;

exit;

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In reply to pattern matching -- feeling stoopit by Anonymous Monk

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