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Howdy

I've got file I want to split into chunks, but I'm not sure where the newlines and spaces lie, or how they are interwoven.

It's got the basic structure:

Title Line (\n?)

(4 spaces)Author Line (\n?)

(4 spaces)URL Line (\n?)

... Repeat

However there are things interwoven like header lines:

-----------------------------------------

BLAH Header

-----------------------------------------

Now my question ;) :

if I split the file using: s/\n/ms

I get a string of 0's and 1's

1111100001011001110111110011110011111001111001111100111011111110011111110011111100111011111001111100

I just *know* this is useful information, but how can I incorporate it into a (relatively) simple pattern match??

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