I'm trying to find a way to concatentate subsequent array elements into a new array upon matching a string walking an array. For example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $file = '/output.txt';
open DATA, "$file" or die "can't open file";
my @array = <DATA>;
  for($i=1; $i < 10; $i++) {
    foreach my $found ($array[$i]) {
      if ( $found =~ /string1/ ) {
        my @new = join($array[$i], $array[$i++]);
      }
    }
  }
close (DATA);

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Let's say "string1" is $array[2] now I want to be able to create a @new with $array[2] and $array[3] concatentated. I'm guessing I'd use join somehow (ie, my @new = join($array[$i], $array[$i+1];), but am having problems figuring out how to do $array[$?] + 1 element when I don't know statically what the matching array element number is.

Anybody have any idea's?

Thanks,

Jim

In reply to array element question by Anonymous Monk

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