Hello All, I am trying to get my script to capture the entire line of my find (header piece) and not just the find characters (first two characters in $find). I have tried many variations and still come up with nothing that works. Any help would be great! 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $find = '^(H0|HT)';
my $header;

open (NEW, ">", "OUTPUTTEST.txt" ) or die "could not open:$!";
open (FILE, "<", "NEWFILETEST.txt") or die "could not open:$!";

while (<FILE>) {
    if (/($find)/) {
        $header = $1;
} elsif (/^\s{38}\S*/) {
    print NEW "$header\t", $_;
    }
}
close (FILE);
close (NEW)

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input file

HT00000000
     NOTE1
     NOTE2
     NOTE3

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current output file


HT     NOTE1
HT     NOTE2
HT     NOTE3

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expected output file


HT00000000     NOTE1
HT00000000     NOTE2
HT00000000     NOTE3

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In reply to Caputre Entire Line Not Just Find by jlope043

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