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Can anyone think of an elegant way to grab the first block of 1+ contiguous TITLE lines, and stop?

my $title;
for (@data) {
    if (/^TITLE\s+\d*(.*)/) {
        $title .= $1;
    } else {
        last if defined $title;
    }
}
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The elegance would be in not adding a flag but rather reusing $title for that purpose (since it already contains the state the flag would save).

— Arien

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