Assuming that it's a word with no spaces, then... 
while (<FILE>) {
    last if /TARGET\s?=\s?(\S*)\s/;
}
my $value = $1 || "not found";

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In other words, look for the string of interest (with some possible white space padding), and placeholder the 'word' that follows it up to the next white space. We break the loop if that exists, and the word will be in $1 from the regex. Otherwise, this should be null, and you'll know it's not there.
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In reply to Re: Get string for a word in a file after some specific pattern compare by Masem
in thread Get string for a word in a file after some specific pattern compare by Anonymous Monk

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