*** code pasted below, chatter up above **** Hello all, Im relatively new to perl so I hope this question doesnt insult anyone. Im parsing a file and i will need to find one particular line based on a word and then the rest of that file ill need to be able to parse it again. If anyone has a good way of doing this I would love to hear it .. so far I can only create a "marker" that I have found the line and from there create a new array.
1) is there a way to do "@new_array = array that is left".. a pop from the front of the array if you will
or
2)is there a better conditional loop to use ... i thought of while/until but that doesnt seem to work in this case
or
3) someone have a much better way of doing this???? :)
*** code **** 

while (<FILE>){
                my @arr_hold=$_;
                foreach my $guide (@arr_hold){
                        if ( $guide =~ /PAGE:   2/){
                                $var = 1;
                        }
                        if ($var == "1"){
                                print FILE2 "$guide";
                                push (@new_arr,$guide);
                        }
                }
                foreach (@new_arr){
                print $_;
                }
        }

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Thanks. R.

Edit Masem 2002-01-23 - Title modified from "newbie question"

In reply to newbie questions on array access and control loops by Anonymous Monk

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