You seem to be dealing with record oriented data where records are separated by empty lines. Often it is convenient to read a record as a time. Consider:

use strict; use warnings; my $data = <<DATA; this is test only 1 Baki: 9.70 this is test only 2 Baki : 9.30 this is test only 3 Baki : 9.00 DATA my $lastRecord; open my $in, '<', \$data; local $/ = "\n\n"; # Read a record at a time while (defined (my $record = <$in>)) { chomp $record; next if $record =~ /$(?:Baki)/; $lastRecord = $record; } print $lastRecord;

Prints:

this is test only 3 Baki : 9.00

Note the use of three parameter open and a lexical file handle. Usually there would be an or die ...; for the open as well, but in this case (using a string as a file) there is no need.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: how to find last word match ? by GrandFather
in thread how to find last word match ? by bh_perl

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