Take a look at the grep function http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/grep.html
Also of potential use is the qr// quote operator: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators This lets you do: my $ip_search = qr/$ip_string/; my @lines_with_ip = grep /$ip_search/, @raw_data; # or is that grep $ip_search, @raw_data; ? Now you got an array with only lines that got the ip. my $i = 0; foreach @lines_with_ip { print $_; $i++; } print "The IP was found $i times\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
