Hello all, This may be a stupid question, but I will really apprecite it if someone can help me with this.
I have a text file which part of it is displayed below. Example RENTAL NOTICE LETTER EXHIBIT 10.2 FIRST RESTATED AND AMENDED AUTO LEASE NOTICE TH +IS LEASE is made as of the 1st day of March, 2001, by and between HAN +NAH RENTAL, CO. a Maine Corporation having its principal offices in P +ortland End What I want is to extract any phrase that contains the word "NOTICE". +In this example, both "RENTAL NOTICE LETTER" and "AUTO LEASE NOTICE" +are the information that I need. Because there can be two ways for locating the phrase "XXX NOTICE YYY" +: (1) (boundary or begining of line) XXX NOTICE YYY (\n); (2) (more than two spaces, such as " ") XXX NOTICE YYY (more than tw +o spaces, such as " " ); I tried with the following: if ($a =~ /(?:\b| +?)(.+)*(NOTICE)(.+)*(?:\n| +?)/i) { print $1." ".$2." ".$3."\n"; }

But it does not work quite well. Can you make some suggestions?


In reply to How to parse this information out? by coltman

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