Btrott, Thanks a lot for your help. I still have a little problem I modified the program a little bit. It will be recieving information from a file. The program is supposed to parse the line with total in it. there is file rows there. i need to use the las two, the one with the total.

..... ..... ....  ....  ....
..... ..... ....  ....  ....
total 1234  1234  5678  7894
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I need to use the the numbers "5678" and "7894", and graph them in excel everyday. The graph would be "day" vs "total". I hope this makes what I am trying to do a little easier to understand. Now my code reads...

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
my($currentLine, $name, $infilename);
chomp ($infilename = "temp1.pl");
    if ($ currentLine =~ /^ \$name:/) {
        print $currentLine;
}
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Thanks alot, Paav

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