Here you go:

$ cat spw663850.dat
total Laptops produced: 60
total cpu sold: 57
total mice produced: 40
total cpu sold: 45
total Laptops produced: 68
total mice produced: 48
total cpu sold: 51
total printers produced: 19
total monitors produced: 149
$
$
$ cat spw663850
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;

use List::Util q{first};

my ( $inFile, @phrases ) = @ARGV;
my $lastPhrase = $phrases[ -1 ];

open my $inFH, q{<}, $inFile
   or die qq{open: $inFile: $!\n};
my @lines = <$inFH>;
close $inFH or die qq{close: $!\n};

foreach my $phrase ( @phrases )
{
    my $rxPhrase = qr{\Q$phrase\E};
    my $lineNo =
      first { $lines[ $_ ] =~ $rxPhrase } 0 .. $#lines;

    unless ( defined $lineNo )
    {
        print qq{$phrase: not found in sequence\n};
        next;
    }

    print qq{$1\n}
       if $lines[ $lineNo ] =~ m{\Q$lastPhrase\E\s*(\d+)};

    $lineNo ++;
    splice @lines, 0, $lineNo;
}
$
$
$ ./spw663850 spw663850.dat 'total Lap tops produced:' 'total mice pro
+duced:' 'total cpu sold:'
45
$

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Feel free to ask if the script is not clear. I cleaned up the data file so that none of the lines had spaced before the colons just for consistency.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re^5: search pattern and arrays by johngg
in thread search pattern and arrays by mercuryshipz

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