perl 675658-2.pl ---->Variation 1 (Cumbersome coding to be explicit) DT: 2008-Jan-01 00:00:00 UTC (GMT +0000) Channel: seven ref: xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx tids: 123456789 ---->Variation 2 (Merely splits the data withOUT removing unneeded descriptors) DT: 2008-Jan-01 00:00:00 UTC (GMT +0000) Channel: Toll: channel = seven ref: ref = xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx tids: tids = 123456789 ---->Variation 3 (Provides a header, removes descriptors from data. Could easily be revised to push each item to an AoA for further processing, already explained elsewhere.) DATETIME Channel Ref tids ============================================================================================== 2008-Jan-01 00:00:00 UTC (GMT +0000) seven xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx 123456789