Hello again.

I am trying to write a script that will read in a file into an array line by line. When it gets to the line starting with arcserve.nlm, I want my script to put that line and all other lines after that one until it reaches 2 blank lines into a temporary file. This arcserve.nlm will be somewhere in the middle of the file, but the line will start with arcserve.nlm.

Please help! I am having problems jumping to the line beginning with arcserve.nlm, then starting my conditions with this line, giving me every line until I reach 2 blank lines together. Below is what I have started:

use strict;
use File::Basename;

##********  Variables  ********##
my $filepath = 'c:\a\netware';
my $dump = 'Netware_hw.txt';
my $arc = 'ARCSERVE.NLM'; 
my $serverfile = 'dallas.txt';




opendir (SOFTWARE, "$filepath");
chdir $filepath;
    open (SERVER, "<$serverfile") or die "Can't open the file\n";
    open (OUTPUT, ">>$filepath\\$dump");
    print OUTPUT "$name~";
    my @lines= <SERVER>;
    foreach my $line (@lines)
        {
            if ($line =~ m/$arc/)
            {
            split(/^\n/;
            print OUTPUT "$line~";}
        }

    
    }


close (OUTPUT);
closedir (SERVER);
closedir (SOFTWARE);

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Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can provide me with!

In reply to Searching for variable then blank lines by rscott212

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