monitoring for text on a screen

[foolove]

I am coming from the perl world but want to try to do something that will monitor for a text string on the screen continually if the text string is met then left click on the text string and then do other things

thanks to all who reply

[Bert]

use WinGetText

[foolove]

for the if statement I am trying to click on the text then do other stuff within the program window

$text = WinGetText("[CLASS:SunAwtFrame]", "")

If $text = "example text" Then MouseClick ("Left")