in reply to Matching string, then getting next line
open( INPUT, "some.file" ) or die $!; my @content; { local $/; @content = split( /[\r\n+]/, <INPUT> ); } my $tag1 = "whatever"; my $tag2 = "blah"; my $i = 0; while ( $i < $#content ) { # don't test very last line $_ = $content[$i++]; print "$content[$i]\n" if (( /35=8/ and /$tag1/ and /$tag2/ ) or ( /35=9/ and /$tag1/ )); }
I wanted to include the file open and read steps to show how to slurp it directly into an array (rather than slurping to a scalar then splitting to an array, which keeps two copies of the whole file in memory, which makes me itchy).
BTW, notice that you were using printf with a single scalar arg. Someday, if that string happened to contain "%d" or something similar, you might find the output to be different from what you intended.
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