I am brand new to PERL (about 2 weeks since the purchase of O'Reilly 4th Edition Learning Perl) and I am attempting to parse a file. I have figured out how to load the file into arrays, using \n\n as the seperator value (parsing the file pragraph by paragraph) I would like to know if I'm going about this the correct way. I need to search the file looking for a paragraph that starts with, "keyword" and a ':' then I need to write that paragraph out to another file. So here's what I have so far: (I get the value of KWD from STDIN) 
open FILE, "<input.txt" ;
$file=<FILE> ;
@paras=split /\n\n/, $file ;
foreach (@paras) {
    @LINE=split /:/, @paras ;
    if ($LINE[1] = $KWD) {
       print "@paras" ;
    }
}

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Any suggestions would be greatly appreicated...

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