I can print the 2 lines that I am looking for....

Original content restored by GrandFather below

here is what I tried-
file.txt -------------- object-group network HOSTNAME_1ST network-object host 10.1.1.1 object-group service WEB_TCP tcp port-object eq 80 --------------
Trying to get the 1st 2 lines while matching an ip address.
use strict; use warnings; my $iphostname; my $filename = 'file.txt'; open(my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename' $!"; for $iphostname ($fh) { print $iphostname if (/^object-group/ ... /(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d +{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})$/); }
it gives me an error - Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at .......

In reply to Re^2: Parsing multiple lines based on a given String by ArifS
in thread Parsing multiple lines based on a given String by ArifS

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