Hi, I'm trying to find a way to grab a field only if another field from the previous line is matched. The file format looks like this: 
request(blah1
     START_TIME, blah2
     blah
     blah

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I want to output blah1:blah2 but only if blah1 does *not* contain a certain string. My code looks something like this: 
foreach $line (@lines)
  {
  if (/request/)
  ($r1, $r2) = split(/\(/);
  print $r2 unless /BADSTRING/;

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Now I want to say if $r2 does not contain BADSTRING then for each case where this is true split the very next line (START_TIME) and grab $blah2. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

In reply to grab only if pattern matches previous line by nkpgmartin

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