I have a Perl script in which i read a file.
When i find a particular string in that file, i open another file from another server and then return back to the server where i was reading the file from. I wish to continue reading the file from the point where i left and brached out to read another file.
Is it possible to store the filepointer somewhere and return reading the file.
Example of the above code is:

open(f1,file1.txt)
while(<f1>)
{
if(/String1/){
open(f2,<file2 from 2nd server>)
while(<f2>){
.
.
}
close(f2);
}
if(/String2/)
{
print $_;
}
}
close(f1);
Solution 1: I work around now by directing the whole file in an array like
@arr = <f1> and then read the array in loop.
But is there a way where i could store the filepointer somewhere and when i return from the first loop i can search for String2 in the the file1.txt.
Thanks

I guess, i found out the mistake. Perl does store the filepointer in memory. I had the file closed after step1 and before the search of String2.

I had given an explicit statement of close(f1) instead if close(f2).