Ok Muthu, See there is a file called as pixconfig.txt which has the entries such as *PIX-4-106023* *PIX-4-101123* *....so on*
and there is one more file called ip.log which has the entries below, Nov 29 10:03:24 10.20.1.2 Nov 29 2005 10:33:53: %*PIX-4-106023*: Deny tcp src inside:Blackberry/3657 dst outside:102.112.149.73/445 by access-group "inside" i have to macth the bold characters written in the file so i use the below code which is not working Open (FILE1,">pixconfig.txt"); Open (FILE,">ip.log"); while (<FILE1>) { $line1 = $_; (Here i Get the *PIX-4-106023* entry from the file) while (<FILE>) { $line = $_; if ($line =~ /(.*)$line1(.*)/) (Here i have to check the value which i get from a file but it is not searching) { print "Got the String"; } } } Please Help me out regards Mazhar On 11/29/05, Muthukumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you post your exact work around on this to help you! Post script and > files and your requirement. > > Regards, > -Muthu > > > On 11/29/05, Mazhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Muthu still the pattern does not match and it comes out of the loop > > > > Regards > > Syed > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www: http://geocities.com/kmuthu_gct/ > > >