Now my file contains these data 
.rem *****************************************************************
+*****
.rem *                                                                
+    *
.rem *                           deb123.rpt                           
+    *
.rem *****************************************************************
+*****
.rem
.rem ------------------------ book_tab variables ---------------------
.rem
.declare book_no                     a14
.declare l_code                      a10
.declare l_book                         a12
.declare book_date                     a13

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and I need to read this file line by line the file name is deb123.rpt and my code is 
use IO::File;



my $fh = IO::File->new();





die "File $ARGV[0] is there in the specified location but is of Zero b
+ytes"  if (-z $ARGV[0]);
$ARGV[0] .= ".rpt";

$fh->open($ARGV[0], "r");
local($/);
#my $data = $fh->getline;
#$fh->close;
while(defined($data = $fh->getline)){



if($data =~ /^\.r/){

print "This is a comment $data\n";

}
if($data =~ /^\.dec/){

print "This is declared variable $data\n";
}



}
$fh->close;

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but its not giving any output and even its not printing the data at particular line in the file also... Please help me out for the code

In reply to Re^2: Extract the variable by denzil_cactus
in thread Extract the variable by denzil_cactus

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