Where to start? Maybe you want index rather than grep:

my $found = -1 != index $item, 'CQA_STATUS';

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or you might want grep rather than foreach:

my @stats = grep (/CQA_STATUS/) @cqafiles;

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except that (although, being a Windows user I don't use glob much) I don't think that is the right thing at all. What are you expecting to match? The best this code could do is is find a file whose name includes CQA_STATUS - very likely not what you want.

If you need to search files for some text, you've got to search the files! There just ain't no way around it. The following may serve as a starting point:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $usage = "usage: get_cqa_status.pl <cqa_file_path>";
my $cqapath = "";
my $status_line = "";

############################################

if ($#ARGV <0) { die "$usage"; }

$cqapath = $ARGV[0];

open (FILE, "> $cqapath/CQA_STATUS")||die "can't open file $cqapath/CQ
+A_STATUS for writing.\n";

while (<>)
    {
    next if ! /^CQA_STATUS/;
    print FILE;
    }

close(FILE) || die "can't close$cqapath/CQA_STATUS after writing\n";

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In reply to Re: extract a single line from multiple files in a folder. by GrandFather
in thread extract a single line from multiple files in a folder. by august3

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