Hi experts,

I have 2 simple problems:

I am searching for few lines randomly from my outfile.html and placing them in an final.txt file.

here is my code:

open OUTFILE, "<$outfile";
open FINAL, ">$final";

while (<OUTFILE>) {
    print FINAL if /(my first line)/;
    print FINAL if /(my second line)/;
    print FINAL if /(my third line)/;
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here is my output

line1<br>
line2<br>
line3<br>
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question 1

I would like to have a blank line in between line 2 and 3. where can I place the "\n" in my code so the outout will be like below?

line 1
line 2

line 3
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question 2:

I am searching for few lines randomly from my outfile.html and placing them in an final.txt file.

I was successful till that point but my outfile.html has "br" at the end of each line as shown below.

line1<br>
line2<br>
line3<br>
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how can I remove that?

Please Advise Thanks in advance!

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