Hello Monks, I have this small input file that I am trying to read from my perl script , it looks like this : 
[CODE]
1000

[PASS]
AMY     AMY2376G
NOOR    NOO2376G
MONK    MON2376G

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I need to read that file and get the following variables sat : 
$code = 1000

$user1 = AMY
$pass1 = AMY2376G

$user2 = NOOR
$pass2 = NOO2376G

.
.
etc

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I don't seem to grep what i need correctly , I am trying somthing like : 
open ( input , "../input" ) or die " .... ";
while (<input>)
{
my $code=$_ if /^CODE/

.
.
.
}

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just not sure how to get to the second line after getting the thing I am looking for ,, can someone help. thanks

In reply to reading an input file by Anonymous Monk

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