> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Prais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: searching a sub string
> 
> 
> 
> Am I understanding this correctly  that if I put in the 
> following code the
> result will be it will start reading on row 23?
> 
> For the print output I am getting the following.
> line: (substr(1, 42, 7)
> 
> Which leads me to believe that it is starting on line 1.
> 
> Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?
> 
> for(my $i=0; $i<22; $i++){<EMAILMGR>};         #This will put 
> you at row 23.----

A more "perlish" way to read 22 lines would be:

   <EMAILMGR> for 1..22;

>   $_=<EMAILMGR>;
>   my $line=$_;
>   my $nextline=$line++;

The expression $line++ is destroying the previous value of
$line as read from the file, and setting it to the numeric
value 1. What are you trying to accomplish here?

> if (substr($line, 42, 7) eq "Running")
> {
>  print STDERR "\nline: (substr($line, 42, 7)";

You cannot (easily) interpolate a function call inside double quotes.
You need to use:

   print STDERR "\nline: ", substr($line, 42, 7);

> }
> Else

case-sensitive: needs to be "else". Did you actually run this?

> {
>  print STDERR "\nline: (substr($line, 42, 7)";
> }

The "if" and "else" cases are identical. What are you trying
to accomplish here?

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