in reply to I just want IF, OR, OR not every one

Try reading the whole file into a string (one way is use File::Slurp "read_file"; $all_lines = read_file("filename");) and working on that string instead.

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Re^2: I just want IF, OR, OR not every one
by wcj75019 (Acolyte) on Feb 29, 2008 at 22:22 UTC
    That is one way. They are big files. There are 650 of them. I don't want to crash the box.