I need to implement what I think will be a very easy perl program. I've spent a few hours on it already and figure someone more experienced could give me the answer in less than 5 minutes.

I have a file with many lines, "output.txt", that I need to look for the string 'AGF30'.

Once I find that string, I need to search from that point to the first percentage symbol (%), and take the last 10 characters off the end of that line and put them into a variable (let's say $ir_value).

After that, I need to skip down 2 more lines and take the last 10 characters from that line and put that into $ysp_value.

Any takers? This would be unbelievably helpful in getting me started on my path to perl understanding. Thanks in advance.

In reply to Simple parse of file - getting started by RickF71

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