A couple of things.
1. /^frz\s+=\s+(\w+)\;/ will not match a line starting with "frz=" as there is a mandatory whitespace after the z in your regular expression (you were probably looking for \s* so it will match both lines starting with "frz=" or "frz  =" (you might want to change the other \s+ to \s* depending on what the line might look like after the "=".
2. One way to skip the intermediate variable would be: 
open (CONFIG_FILE,"$config_file") or die "Can't open $config_file";

my $bar;
while(<CONFIG_FILE>){
 next unless /^frz\s*=\s*(\w+)\;/;
 $bar = $1;
}
print $bar,$/;
close(CONFIG_FILE) or die;

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-enlil

In reply to Re: Special Variable Pattern Match whilst reading input from a file by Enlil
in thread Special Variable Pattern Match whilst reading input from a file by Withnail

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