Re: Need to multi grep and grep exclude in perl.

[kcott]

G'day Frits,

I'm familiar with grep, egrep and fgrep but not ggrep. Please provide a link to documentation or a brief description of how it differs from grep.

Here's how you can do the "multi grep and grep exclude" part:

grep { /Country/ && /City1/ && /Street1/ && ! /name1/ } ...

"this grep will be in a foreach loop"

Why? Please provide some code to show what you're doing.

As already stated by others, your requirements are unclear. Here's my best guess as to the type of thing you want.

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>) {
    if ((my $result) = grep { /Country/ && /City1/ && /Street1/ && ! /
+name1/ } $_) {
        print +(split ' ', $result)[4];
        last;
    }
}

__DATA__
Country City  Street1 number1 name1
Country City1 Street1 number1 name2
Country City1 Street1 number2 name3
Country City1 Street2 number1 name4
Country City1 Street2 number1 name5

Output:

name2