Re: Scanning a file for a match, printing different part of the line when found.

[philipbailey]

You can do this sort of thing with a one-liner. You don't specify what you want to match in much detail, but here is an example:

perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /Name:\s*(.+?)\b/' search.txt

[ww]

Since OP wasn't specific about how "Name" is constructed, ++


But note that this will not satisfy the op by printing the (whole) name field, if "Name" is comprised of more than one word (for example: Firstname MI Lastname), because of the \b