Monks,

I'm having a problem using "until" while processing lines in a file. Specifically, I'm opening a file, and I want to skip all of the lines in it until I match a specific pattern; I then want to examine the rest of the file. Though I think this code should work, it doesn't (nothing is printed) ... 
while (<LOG>) {

   do    { next }    until m/SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN SERVER_DAILY $da
+te/;
   print ("$. : $_") if    m/SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN SERVER_DAILY $da
+te/;
   print ("$. : $_") if    m/SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END SERVER_DAILY $date
+/;
   print ("$. : $_") if    m/ANS1228E Sending of object '(.*)' failed/
+ 

};

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I know that the pattern in my "do ... until" statement exists, because if I comment that line out, the next line prints the match. I'm sure I'm misunderstanding the way "next" and "until" works. Can someone give me a clue, please?

Thanks ... BlueFlashlight

In reply to skipping lines in a file until regexp matches by blueflashlight

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