...My friend now wants to see more context...

you mean friend as in teacher? ;-)

Anyway, this question has been asked just a few days ago and you will probably be able to find it. But as you surely want to do your homework yourself, you should:

  • match against the pattern and print the previous line (from the variable where you stored it, see next bullet) and the current line
  • store the current line in a variable, so that you can print it in the next while-iteration if necessary
  • pull the next line from <File> and print it (but only if you matched)


    Regards,
    svenXY

    update: and don't forget to use strict and warnings as suggested by ++Crian. In addition, you might want to check if your input isn't something dangerous...

    In reply to Re: Pattern Matching by svenXY
    in thread Pattern Matching by fatfinger

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