Hello dideod.yang,

Fellow Monks have answered your question but I wanted to add another possible solution, not more efficient but just for fun. See sample of code bellow:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use IO::All; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use List::Util 'first'; my @lines = io($ARGV[0])->chomp->slurp; print Dumper \@lines; my $match = first { /test/ } @lines; print 'First Found: ' . $match . "\n"; __END__ $ perl sample.pl file.txt $VAR1 = [ 'This is line one', 'This is line two', 'This is line three with test key word', 'This is line four with test key word' ]; First Found: This is line three with test key word

I am using the following two modules IO::All and List::Util::first. The first modules it is loading the lines on an array, the second module will stop searching the array when it will find the first match.

Hope this helps, BR.

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