RegExp reading only first line 1

[biobrain]

Dear All,

In my RegEx i have to match and print a statement from multiple files. And that statement may exist several time in those files but I want to match only the first matching line and ignoring the rest of all.

Is there any flag which i can use with my regexp which can tell to match print only first line.

 

[KevinADC]

use the "last" control:

while (<IN>) {
   if (/foo/) {
      last; #exits the "while" loop after the first match 
   }
}

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[biobrain]

Thanks a lot.

This is really working for me and solved the question.