Yes a scholl Project, I am trying to understand what I am missing, and trying to find the correct methodology to help understand perl more. #!/usr/bin/perl # # # # # # ## { open (story8, "story8.txt") or die "can't open file"; while ($line = <story8>){ print $line;} if ($_ =~ /^(^\s+)(\s.*?)*\s\1$/) { print ("the line is $_ \n"); } } I have tried different ways but have a had time find the correct strings to get it to work. I have looked on google, but seem to run into good explanations, or something different is displayed _____________________________________________________________ This is also a combo class, I was not informed by my advisor when signing up, that this was broke into two parts, the first half 5 weeks we are to learn how to code using perl, and the second half is unix administration.

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