Hello, I found this code to scan a file and print each occurrence of a string. As it is, the exact search string is printed. How can I print a different part of the line when the string is found? Example: Search for "Name:", and every time it is found, print just the name itself (which falls one space after the colon) and not the search string "Name:". 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use IO::File;

use constant FILE => 'search.txt';
use constant FIND => 'string to find';

IO::File->input_record_separator(FIND);

my $fh = IO::File->new(FILE, O_RDONLY)
  or die 'Could not open file ', FILE, ": $!";

$fh->getline;  #fast forward to the first match

#print each occurence in the file
print IO::File->input_record_separator
  while $fh->getline;

$fh->close;

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In reply to Scanning a file for a match, printing different part of the line when found. by cheech

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