Hi all,
I am trying to extract a single line of text from multiple files in a folder. I am trying to do this with out opening the files for reading. Don't know if this is a good idea. The code that I wrote using grep is not working..I would appreciate if you could correct me. The code snippet is provided below. Each file has multiple lines but ONLY ONE line that starts with CQA_STATUS and I am trying to extract ONLY this line.This line is like CQA_STATUS,TEST_NAME,PASS,FAIL,PASS,FAIL,FAIL,FAIL,PASS
Thanks
august 
my $usage = "usage: get_cqa_status.pl <cqa_file_path>";
my $cqapath = "";
my $status_line = "";

############################################

if ($#ARGV <0) { die "$usage"; }

    $cqapath = $ARGV[0];
    my @cqafiles = glob("$cqapath/cqa_*");
    
    open (FILE, "> $cqapath/CQA_STATUS")||die "can't open file $cqapat
+h/CQA_STATUS for writing.\n";
    
    foreach my $item (@cqafiles)
    {
        
        my @stats = grep ('CQA_STATUS', $item);
        
        $status_line = $stats[0];
#Remove everything before the first comma        
#$status_line = substr($status_line, (index $status_line, ',')+1);
        print FILE "$status_line\n";
        
    }
     close(FILE) || die "can't close$cqapath/CQA_STATUS after writing\
+n";

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