Fellow Monks,
here is the situation: i have text from a file stored in a db table. in my program i query that text out of the table and store it in a variable.

is there a way i can use that variable and iterate through it line by line (each line ends in \n) in order to process the text. (in some cases depending on what the line starts with i will need to get the next line as well)

i can get it to work fine if i use a filehandle and open it up for reading but unfortunately i do not have this luxury and the only access i have to the text of the original file is stored in a variable populated by a sql query. here is what i have so far: 
foreach my $record (@files_to_process){
        # $$record{data} is the way to reference data since array is a
+n array of hash refs
       
    while(my $line = <$$record{data}>){
        next if $line !~ /^06/; #if line isn't needed jump to next rec
+ord
        my $line2 = <$$record{data}>; #get next line for in a way that
+ it won't be retrieved next time through from $line

        chomp($line);
        chomp($line2);

        #now do some processing on those 2 lines and then continue loo
+p


}

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thanks ahead of time

In reply to using a variable as a filehandle by bear0053

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