#! /usr/bin/perl use strict ; use warnings ; my $line = <> ; my $queued_line = '' ; chomp $line ; while ( $queued_line = <> ) { chomp $queued_line ; $line =~ m|<(.+?)>| ; print "Found match: [$1] (next line: $queued_line)\n" ; $line = $queued_line ; } $line =~ m|<(.+?)>| ; print "Found match: [$1] (last line)\n" ;