finding a string in a text file in perl

[bcdixit]

I want to search for a particular string in a text file.

I was trying to open the file for read and use a while loop to search for the string line by line. I want to stop at the first match but I dont know how to exit from the while loop after the match.
could anybody help?

any other solutions are also welcome.

thnks
-bcd

 

[rharsh]

To exit out of your while loop, take a look at last.

 

[KevinADC]

a short example:

while(<>){
   if (condition) {
      print $_;
      last;
   }
}

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[bcdixit]

thanks kevinADC, thats exactly what I was doing. I did not know about the "last" function.

 

[KevinADC]

thank rharsh

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!