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Old 11-19-2008
Annihilannic Annihilannic is offline Forum Advisor  
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Why don't you just change the condition where it stops, i.e. when you hit the "doal" line?


Code:
    while (getline && $1 != "doal") {

If you need to do any processing of the "doal" line contents you can just do it after the while loop.