Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have an array in which one column can contain any statement.
From multiple rows of that column I want to match the statement like "Execution Started."

If that row contains "Execution started." then only I have to fetch other data of other columns of that particular row.

I dont want that record if it contains only "Start". the entire "Execution Started." should match.

how this can be implemented in perl.

Thanks

thats not much information to go by but this should work:

Code:

while(<>) {
   if (/\bExecution Started\b/) {
      now do whatever you need to do
   }
}

Consider this is your data:
The script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;

open (DATAFILE, "<data1") or die $!;

while (<DATAFILE>){
        my ($line) = $_;
        if ($line =~ /Execution started/){                print $line;                print "\n";
        }
}

When ran the script