in reply to Re^3: extracting strings from text files
in thread extracting strings from text files

Thanks for the help guys. I have solved the problem. It's a metacharacter in one of the files that stops the program. Dave, here is the whole message:
Unmatched ) in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/LLP) <-- HERE \s*(\w+\s* +(\d\d|\d),\s*\d{4})\s*$/ at D:\files\test2.pl line 88, <FILE> chunk 1 +.