This is the part which is responsible for giving me the result, but i have a small problem with this, this jus gives me the number which is present after the search phrase not the number before that.

The perl program actually searches for a pattern and returns a number present after the pattern in the log file.

My search phrase will be something like:

total rows rejected:
or
rows rejected

For example,

total rows rejected: 4000

it is able to give the value 4000 as the result

but if my search phrase is

3000 rows rejected

its not able to give 3000

could somebody help in this?
 print qq{$1\n}
       if ($lines[ $lineNo ] =~ m{\Q$Phrase\E\s*(\d*)});

[download]
thanks.
Note: johngg helped me in writing this code... credit goes to him.

In reply to search pattern with digits by mercuryshipz

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.