folks, I have the following data file :
(CSW - Q1) OMIPMS55:NTTCSWQ1:MQSI.3PL846 OMIPMS55:NTTCSWQ1:MQSI.STATUS OMIPMS55:NTTCSWQ1:MQSI.3PLXDOCK.STATE (CSW - Q2) OMIPMS55:NTTCSWQ2:MQSI.3PL846 OMIPMS55:NTTCSWQ2:MQSI.3PL944 (CSW - Q3) OMIPMS55:NTTCSWQ3:MQSI.3PL846
I am trying to read that data file and read the lines which don't contains (....) , however inside the loop I don't want to loop for every single line. in other words ,, forexample how would I read what is between (CSW - Q1) and (CSW - Q2) only without printing (CSW - Q1) and (CSW - Q2) , right now I have the following :
open (INPUT, "data") || die "couldn't open the file!"; open (OUTPUT, ">result.out") || die "couldn't open the file!"; foreach $line (<INPUT>) { chomp $line; if ( $line !~ /^\[.*\]/ ) { ($server, $queuem, $queue)= split(/:/, $line); system qq(telnet -host $server -user mqadmin -passwd >> out); } } close(OUTPUT); close(INPUT);
this will print all lines and it will loop foreach line , I want it to treat what is between (***) till the next (**) as one group and not go through the loop for every time . If I am not making sense please let me know I will try to explaing better ,, thanks in advance .

In reply to matching some lines by Anonymous Monk

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