Eric Plowe wrote:
>
> Hello all.
Hello,
>I am working on a script that searches through a text file - each
> 'record' within the text file is separated by a - so for example:
>
> -
> Fancy Car
>
> text text
> text text
> -
>
> and so on and so on.
>
> the first initial row of text is wh
You might do something like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# good to see you are using -w and strict...way to go!
my $filename = "somefile";
# rename bit to found to be more descriptive
my $found = 0;
my $search = $ARGV[0];
# that should be $! ...you had !$ I suspect typo.
open(FILE,
