I'm a newbie. I have a long list of data where i need to extract speficic word from a specific line. The line i'm interested is "All avg = 12 Total avg = 3". From this line, i only want to extract out "All avg = 12". I need help to modify the condition.

Below is my sample code: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5
# 
# Program to transpose temp1.txt
#

$dirname = "C:\\cynthia\\perl";
print "\n\nDirectory is : $dirname\n\n";
opendir (DATADIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendirname; $!";

$filename = "temp.pl";
print "Filename is : $filename\n\n";
open(LINE,"temp2.txt")|| die "\nERROR: Could not open input file $infi
+lename";

# assign the first line to a variable 
# $line = <LINE>; 

# use a loop to keep reading the file 
# until it reaches the end 
while ($line = <LINE>)
    { 
    chomp $line; 
  
          if ($line =~m/^All avg/ ){
              print "$line\t";
          }else{
                print "$line\n\n";
            }
    } 

# close file when done 
close(LINE); 


#close dir
closedir (DATADIR);

# display message when done 
print "DONE!\n";

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