Hi all, This seemed likan easy thing to do, but I am not getting it figured out. I hope someone can help. I have a text file that contains the result of a Sybase data dump. I would like to extract the final dump line which gives the total kb dumped to tape, and then a few lines down the completion results. I can find the 1st line from the a one liner (perl -ne /Dump phase number 3/ dump.log), but when I try to put it into a while loop so I can stop searching, it never finds the /Dump phase number 3/ expression. ANY suggestions to help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. A sample of the code is below 
#
open(FILE,"dumptape.log") ||
    die("Could  open file");
    $line = <FILE>;
#
while(<FILE>)
{
    print if /Dump phase number 3/ ;
    
}

close FILE;

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