in reply to Generalising string in pattern

See perlre. If you show us the code you've written, we can give you more concrete comments about it.

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Re^2: Generalising string in pattern
by rajyalakshmi (Acolyte) on Nov 13, 2009 at 08:41 UTC

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    $filepath="D:/fetch/autofetch.log";

    my $pattern1 =' Latest 29 Items in Feed & 0 New Fetched items';

    sysopen($FILE,$filepath,o_RDWR) or die "could find the file";

    while (my $line = <$FILE>) { # print $line if ($line =~m/\b$pattern1/ ); if($line =~m/$pattern/ ) { print $line; }

    In the file i am searching for $pattern1.

    The file has

    Latest 29 Items in Feed & 0 New Fetched items

    Latest 28 Items in Feed & 0 New Fetched items

    Latest 28 Items in Feed & 0 New Fetched items

    Now i want pattern to match all 3..

    But now my present pattern matches only first one
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      See perlre about \d, or about the [...] character class notation.

      Also, you might want to use <code>...</code> tags around your code and data so it renders and downloads nicely.

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