Yes, I am confused. Just starting to play with perl and trying to do something clever (for me, anyway).

Basically, trying to extract this string:
server1 server2 server3

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from this text: 
server1:NY:3600
server2:NY:3600
server3:NY:3600
server4:Boston:3600

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Easy (even for me) however IF there is a "webserver#" entry, I want different results. I want this string:
"webserver1 server2 server3 webserver4"

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from this: 
server1:NY:3600
webserver1:NY:3600
server2:NY:3600
server3:NY:3600
webserver4:NY:3600
server4:Boston:3600

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In other words, extract "webserverx" but NOT "serverx"

There is probably a hundred ways of doing this, but every time I go down a path, I get stuck. I'm getting very frustrated. I know I could do this with a shell script, but I really want to start using perl. This is my last resort.

Any help with where to start will be greatly appreciated. This is what I have so far. Am I going down the right path?:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# stuff
use warnings;
use strict;

open(SRVS, "< /opt/etc/servers")
    || die "Can't open /opt/etc/servers";

my $wserv = 0;
my @allserv = ();
while (my $line = <SRVS>) {
    if ($line =~ /server/) {
        if ($line =~ /web/) {
            @webserv = split(":", $line);
            $wserv = 1;
            push(@allserv, $webserv[0]);
        } else { 
            $wserv = 0;
        }
    }
}

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In reply to Data manipulation confusion by hudsterboy

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