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in thread print the whole line

Thanks but for some reason it prints out the whole page when I get a hit and not just each line that I get a hit on. 
my $content = get($url);  
/abc/ and print for $content;

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Re: Re: Re: print the whole line
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 21, 2004 at 14:18 UTC

    That's because you have the whole page stored as a single line. In your original post you showed an array. Try 

    my @content = split /\n/, get($url);

/abc/ and print for @content;

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    But note: What will be considered a "line" in html source bears no realationship to the "lines" that appear on the screen in your browser.

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Re: Re: Re: print the whole line
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 21, 2004 at 16:10 UTC
    No need to split $content up into separate lines first. Try something like: 
    my $content = get($url);
print $content =~ /^(.*abc.*\n)/m;

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    (If you don't need $content for anything else, you can just put the get($url) in its place on the print line.)
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