Hi. I'm new to perl so please excuse my newbie-ness :) Is there a way to print just a word contained in a text file by using a search filter instead of printing the entire string even if the word is not an exact match? I have a text file that contains some server names with the fqdn and some with the short names that are contained in a string. example: <Answer type="string">ServerName.FD.net.org</Answer> The following code finds the string and prints it but I would like to just print the ServerName: 
 
my $file = "computernames.txt";
open FILE, "$file";

 while ($line=<FILE>){
 if ($line=~Servername){
 print $line;
  }
 }

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Regards, Tony

In reply to Print word from text file that is not an exact match by TonyNY

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