Re^3: case sensitive addition

Nathan_84,
I didn't provide any code - only the suggestion that you read the documentation. I probably would not write a perl program to do what you are doing, but if I were to modify your code - it would be something like the following (untested):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

print 'Enter a File name: ';
chomp (my $file = <STDIN>);


print 'Enter a search pattern: ';
chomp (my $pattern = <STDIN>);

open (my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Unable to open '$file' for reading: 
+$!";
my $found = 0;
while (<$fh>) {
    if (/\Q$pattern\E/i) {
        print;
        $found++;
    }
}
print "\nTotal lines matched: $found\n";
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Cheers - L~R

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Re^4: case sensitive addition by Nathan_84 (Acolyte) on May 14, 2010 at 23:49 UTC
Hey I just wanted to say thanks for the quick response. Just tried your code and it worked a treat! Thanks again. My next challenge is to display a time and date when the search was carried out. Thanks again sir! :)	[reply]
Re^4: case sensitive addition by Nathan_84 (Acolyte) on May 15, 2010 at 01:56 UTC
Hi Limbic Region, I've been racking my brains out to just to add a simple data and time to script so that user can see when the search was performed. I found the script below as a standalone and worked perfectly fine. However trying to integrate it failed miserably! `($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday, $yday,$isdst)=localtime(time); printf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", $year+1900,$mon+1,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;` [download] Please could you advise. Thanks	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: case sensitive addition by ww (Archbishop) on May 15, 2010 at 13:49 UTC
Please, read some docs. Expend some effort on something other than asking questions already answered in those docs. Then, show some effort - read the key docs about PM: On asking for help How do I post a question effectively? I know what I mean. Why don't you? It is gratifying that you do appear to have read one usual element of a message such as this... that is, the admonition to use <code> tags. ++ for that; not so for the rest of your post.	[reply]