well CountZero!! It seems everybody is against me but as a matter of fact I have tried to write the code but unable to do that...Please help me out.. FYI again I am writing my problem..now I wouldnt talk about Oracle rpt file...suppose its a simple text file My file contains 
rem ------------------------ book_tab variables ---------------------
.rem
.declare book_no                     a13
.declare l_code                      a10
.declare l_booking                   a12
.set page_no 1
.set first  "N"
.set no_more_clauses "N"
#dt 1 1 80 #
#dt 2 1 6 9 48 50 61 63 76 80 80 #
.define loktabs
        loc_table book_tab, book_hazmat, custdata2,   edit_table,
        book_rates, print_table in share update mode
..
.define get_input
        select key,  key1, key2, 
               passkey3, passkey4, print_name
          into input_booking_seq, fax_header, file_no, 
               input_print_rates, myNoteId, print_name
          from ed_table
         where ed_table.tag = 'BOOK'
           and ed_table.key = 'PRINT'
           and ed_table.user_id = user
..
.define get_user_info
        select  user_loc,user_name, user_company, 
        into    user_location, user_name, user_company, 
        from    sec_header
        where   user_id = lower(substr(user,5,10))
..

.execute lok_tabs
.execute get_user_info

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So you can see lot of .define lines and I need to extract the name and query from each .define lines .. I am posting my code also... 
#!/usr/bin/perl


$ARGV[0] .= ".rpt";

open(FH,"<$ARGV[0]") or die "Cant open";
@arr = <FH>;

foreach $data(@arr){

if($data =~ /^\.def(.*)$/smx){


$data =~ s/(^\.\w+\s+)(\w+)(\s+)(.+)(^\. \.$)/$2,$4/smx;

print "This is Macro $data \n";

}

}
close(FH);

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Please look into it!!!

In reply to Re^4: Converting Oracle report language code into perl by denzil_cactus
in thread Converting Oracle report language code into perl by denzil_cactus

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