#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my $port_name = 'sdm_yout_i[1]'; open my $fh, "tt.txt" or die $!; while (<$fh>) { if ($_ =~ /\.([0-9a-z_]*?) \(.*?${port_name} .*?,/) { print '$port_name = ' ; say $port_name; print 'cell name = ' ; say $1; } }