Hi I am new perl programnming and have come up with a weee script (with the help of this site!!) to return the word in a particular position in a file. But for some reason it returns nothing. I am probably doing something wrong so if anybody can see what it is that would be fantastic. My script is as follows: 
 
my $word1;
{
  open( FILE, "< $filename1" ) or die( "can't find file1: $!" );
  my $file = <FILE>;
  ( $word1 ) = $file =~ /EditorName\b.+\b(\s*)/;
  close FILE;
}

my $word2;
{
  open( FILE, "< $filename1" ) or die( "can't find file2: $!" );
  my $file = <FILE>;
  ( $word2 ) = $file =~ /EditorCommand\b.+\b(\s*)/;
  close FILE;
}
print $word1, $word2;

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This is only a snippet but it the area of the code I am having difficulty with. Thanks for the help!

In reply to returning word from a file position by Kentdn

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