Hello fellow monks

Do you remember the question Save all but line 32!? Yesterday I had another question to which I gave a reply but I am interested again in how you had resolved the same issue. Here we go:

A colleague of mine asked me: "I have a text file that contains data record as lines; here and there between the data you have rows that tell you the names of the columns. If I find a line that contains, say, the word energy I want to print the line that follows it. In similar cases I resolved with awk, but I can't get a solution for this one and I don't want to code it in FORTRAN".

My solution was:

perl -ne 'print scalar <> if /energy/' filename

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He then asked me if I could add a counter, and I slightly modified the previous in:

perl -ne 'print ++$i,scalar <> if /energy/' filename

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What's your solution for this?

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->make($love) ;
}

In reply to A new question from the front line by bronto

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