Since you are new here, a few tips:

• Explain what your problem is in detail
• Post an example of your input data
• Likewise with your expected output
• Show us what code you have tried
• Read the documentation (FAQS) before you post
• If the documentation confused you explain what where and how
• Read the following:
  • What makes a bad question?
  • File Input and Output
  • String Matching and Regular Expressions
  • Site How To
  • The comments on Turnsteps node are worth reading as well.

So Having said all of that, perhaps something like this will help you get started

use strict;
use warnings;

our $TEXTFILE="/some/path/file.ext";
open(TEXTFILE) || die "Failed to open $TEXTFILE:$!";

local $/;
my $text=<TEXTFILE>; # Slurp the whole file into one string

print "Matched!" if $text=~/match/;
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Now if that didnt help then perhaps you need to think about what additional information you might need to provide us with to help us to help you.

Also you might try the following and see if it provides you with the information you need:

perldoc perlretut
perldoc perlopentut
perldoc perlre
perldoc perlop
perldoc perlvar
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HTH

Yves / DeMerphq
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