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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

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# lect04_flaky_tester
#
# ask user for pattern, see if you can use it to 
# find all lines from file "looky" with that pattern;
#
# modified by Sharon Tuttle from "Learning Perl",
#    by Schartz and Phoenix
#
# last modified: 9-14-04
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print "what pattern do you want to filter lines with?\n";
chomp($patt = <STDIN>);

# note the kluge to "force" <> operator to read lines from
#    looky file... as if I had typed looky on the command
#    line...

# $ARGV[0] = "looky";

# filtering through file looky, note!!!
while (<>)
{
    chomp;

    # see if $_ contains entered pattern
    if (/$patt/)
    {
        printf "line with \$patt $patt:<%s>\n", $_;
    }

}

# end of lect04_flaky_tester