Hi, I have just started to learn Perl and i'm working on some string manipulation and pattern matching.
I would like to know how to return a word that is next to a word i am specifying.
for example, in the following string, i would like to return the word 'red' when i search for 'color: '.

| shape: square | color: red | size: 320x320 | id: 0001

I am reading in a file into an array and am looking at each line. Each line is different, in that it could be just text or whitespace (the line i am actually reading is at the footer of the first page). Here is the code i have so far... 

use strict;

my @file = <STDIN>;
my $word = "color: ";

for my $lineno ( 0 .. $#file ) {
    
    if ($file[$lineno] =~ /\b$word\b/){
        
        
    }
}

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Thank you for your help

In reply to return a word next to the word you give by Anonymous Monk

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