I think it's going to depend on the size of your file, but I think that if the file isn't too large, slurping it in and doing a foreach isn't going to be the worst. Since all your data is seperated by newlines, why would you bother with stuffing all that data in to a database? You could do something like: 

use strict;

my $line;

open FH, $ARGV[0] or die "Couldn't open input file"

while ($line = <FH>){
       print $line if $line =~ /*I*like*foo*/;
       }
close FH;

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If you're on a *nix system, and all you want to do is print those lines, wouldn't it be easier to just use the grep utility?

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

In reply to Re: RegEx Problem? by Popcorn Dave
in thread RegEx Problem? by OverlordQ

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