Hi, I have the following text file: 
Equipment:                WDM 1696-R2.2 IM277B
                          WDM 162X-R1.0 IM277B
solved:                     Xaa01207 "URU "
                                 ./imo3/all_/sr/ALAMmgt.c
                                ./imo3/all_prd/src/NEQTMalarm.c
                            
Lab:                    CSW_WDM_IM2incremental )

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From this file I want to read only some words like: 1696,R2.2,Xaa01207,URU(for example), and each one to store it in a distinct variable. Look what i've tried but it doesn't print anything: 
#!/agl/tools/perl/bin/perl

 my $data_file = '/data/aww/cgi-bin/diana.txt';  
 my $identifier1 = '1696';
 my $identifier2 = '162x';
 my $identifier3 = '1640';
 open(FILE, "$data_file") || die("Could not open file: $!");  
        
         while (<FILE>){
         my (@fields) = split(/\s+/,$_);  
        
                  foreach my $line(@fields){
         if ($line eq $identifier1 or $line eq $identifier2 or $line e
+q $identifier3) { print "$line mama";}
                    }}
                    
           close FILE;

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Thank you very much for your time.

In reply to How do I extract some records from a textfile by bory

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