SUBJECT WAS: Searching for variable then blank lines

Thanks to everyone who has helped me on this. I must be dense. :-\ Now I am getting my script to read in my file and go down to the beginning of the line starting with ARCSERVE.NLM, and it gives me *every* line after that. My script is not not exiting when it finds the first 2 returns after ARCSERVE.NLM for the first time. Below is my script and a sample of the output file.

use strict;
use File::Basename;

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


    open (SERVER, "<$serverfile") or die "Can't open the file\n";
    open (OUTPUT, ">>$filepath\\$dump");

    my @lines= <SERVER>;
    my ($s, $b);
    foreach my $line (@lines)
    {
      if ($line =~ /^\n$/) {
        $b++;
        last if (($b == 2) && $s);
      } else {
        $b = 0;
  }

  if ($line =~ /$arc/) {
    $s = 'true';
  }

  if ($s) {
    print OUTPUT $line;
  }

}



close (OUTPUT);
close (SERVER);

===========
OUTPUT FILE
===========

ARCSERVE.NLM
  Version:            1
  Date:                10/22/2000
  ID:                000
  Parent ID:            x
  Type:                UNKNOWN
  Description:            ARCserve
  Flags:            

  
ASDB.NLM
  Version:            2
  Date:                12/8/2000


ASPIBD.NLM
  Version:            4
  Date:                12/15/2000
  ID:                0

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This is just an example. My file was much larger than this. I was not wanting the information starting with ASDB.NLM to the end of the file. What do I need to do to make this happen?

Thx again!

In reply to Exiting when parsing files by rscott212
in thread Searching for variable then blank lines by rscott212

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