grep file and save whole line into variable

Question

I'm trying to simply grep lines in a file. If the line has the word "status" in it, I need to parse it out and do things with it inside of my for loop. The problem is that there are spaces inside the line, so I'm only getting one word at a time. This loop is actually nested inside of another for loop, which is only reading certain files in my directory. I need to know how to read the whole line, with spaces and everything.

    for STATUS in `grep status $FILE`
        do 
           #do stuff
        done

Answer 1

grep status $FILE | while read line; do
    echo $line ## or do whatever with it
done