Hi, List ! > if(open(FILE1, "/Users/tor/Perl/test")) { > $line = <FILE1>; > print ("This is the contents of the file\n"); > while($line ne " ") { Hey, you are looking for a line that doesnt contain a space. ;o)
> print ($line); > $line = <FILE1>; > } > } > if(open(FILE1, "/Users/tor/Perl/test")) { print ("This is the contents of the file\n"); while (<FILE>) { print $_; } } This should work. The $_ variable is automatically filled with the last line read from the file. while (<FILE1>) { #slurps the file line by line @file = <FILE1> #slurps the whole file into that array HTH Jan -- cat /dev/world | perl -e "while (<>) {(/(^.*? \?) 42 \!/) && (print $1)}" errors->(c) _ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]