in reply to find string in file

perl -ne'print if /Version +=/' file_name

perl -ne'print if /Version\s*=/' file_name

Updated: Thanks for the corrections;-)

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Re^2: find string in file
by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 31, 2008 at 10:06 UTC 
    perl -ne'print if /Version\s+=/' file_name

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    The character class \s contains all forms of whitespace (such as tabs, ...).

    CountZero

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      ... and both of you failed to notice that "0 or more" translates to *, not + ;-).
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