in reply to Extracting Data from a second line

You need next, not last, and the modulus operator (%):

my $i = 0; while (<FILE>) { next if ++$i % 2; print; }

Here, $i can be replaced with $.:

while (<FILE>) { next if $. % 2; print; }

Or use next with a toggle:

my $toggle = 0; while (<FILE>) { next if $toggle ^= 1; print; }

By the way,
 #!usr/bin/perl
is wrong. You must remove the leading space, and you must make the path absolute (or else it will only work form the root):
#!/usr/bin/perl

Update: I didn't read your post close enough. The above didn't answer your question. A solution would be:

for (;;) { last if not defined (my $line1 = <FILE>); last if not defined (my $line2 = <FILE>); next if not $line1 =~ /red line/; print($line1, $line2); }