On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Rajeev Nalluri wrote:
> Is there any grep commandto search inside a file? perldoc grep gives a grep
> command on a string, not files.
>
> And also I cannot use either backticks or system to use unix grep command.
> I want to know is there any perl function to handle grep in a file.
What's wrong with using Perl's regular expressions to pull a pattern out
of a file?
while(<FILE>) {
print if /pattern/;
}
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