in reply to Extracting Data from a second line

my ($x,$y,$redline); while (<FILE>) { if ($redline) { ($x,$y) = /at location (\S+) (\S+)/; print "$x $y\n"; } $redline = /red line/; }

Vary the details as needed. $redline is set to a true value when ever the pattern matches (and a false value when it doesn't match) so that on the next iteration of the loop, you'll be able to capture the location information.