I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but.... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $previous_line = "";
my $line = "";

open (DATA, "/export/home/webadm/scripts/backup_scripts/backup_data/1s
+tnodupe");

while (<DATA>) {
    chop;
    $line = $_;
    if ($line =~ /^\S/) { # if line starts with Non-White Space Charac
+ter 
        if ($previous_line =~ /^\S/) {     # if the previous line  als
+o
                                        # starts with Non-White Space 
+Character      
            # then do something with your successful finding like...
            print "$previous_line\n";
        } else {
            # do something if not
        }
    }
    $previous_line = $line;
}

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I am guessing you want to find the first line of the two lines that don't start with a space. If you wanted to find the second line you could just print line instead of previous_line.

If this is way off, try to explain it better and I'll give it another go.

Thanks,

EEjack

In reply to Re: printing needed info only by eejack
in thread printing needed info only by Er1kW

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