Hi,
I have a question about grepping a file to match a regex, and then using the "match" as a variable in some other function.
The code I have so far is:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = "./file.txt";

# File data looks like: (without the beginning hash)
# tag: variable

open(FILE, $file);
if ( grep /^tag\: (.*)$/, <FILE> ) {
        print "Found tag: $1\n";
} # end-if
close(FILE);

exit;

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My question is, how can i use what the match of (.*) was? $1 is not it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Reagen

Update: Sorry, looks like some more info is needed.
There could be 0 or 1 matches in the file (i.e. either there is a tag and value or there isnt).

In reply to use regex match from file grep by rsiedl

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