Hello everyone, It has been awhile since I have used Perl, therefore I have lost some of my knowledge since I am not using it as often. I am trying to capture a line after skipping a variable of characters and whitespaces, my $find is at column 32 and I want to copy from there and there after for each line that matches my $find. I believe I as missing something or have something in the wrong place as the code works but I get zero results back. Thank you in advance. 

use strict;

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

    open (NEW, ">", "OUTPUT.txt" ) or die "could not open:$!";

    open (FILE, "<", "INPUT.txt") or die "could not open:$!";

        while (<FILE>) {
        print NEW if /^(.{32}$find)/;
    }
close (FILE);
close (NEW);

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INPUT FILE:

JANE, DOE        HT000000000 123 50 70 80
JOHN, DOE JR     H0000000000 123 50 70 80
WILLIAM, DOE     HT000000000 123 50 70 80

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EXPECTED OUTPUT FILE:

HT000000000 123 50 70 80
H0000000000 123 50 70 80
HT000000000 123 50 70 80

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In reply to Copy Line After Skipping Columns by jlope043

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