#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

my @comments;
my $i;
my $j = 0;
my $found_comment = 0;
my $input = 'c:\yourdirectoryhere\sample_perl_data1.txt';
my $line;

open(IN, $input) or die("Can't open file - $input: $!");

while($line = <IN>) {
   if($line =~ m/^=/) {
      if($line =~ m/^===Comments===/) {
         $found_comment = 1;
         if(! defined $i) {
            $i = 0;
         }
         else {
         	   $i++;
         }
         $comments[$i] = "";		# initialize new comments array elements
      }
      else {
         $found_comment = 0;
      }
   }
   else {
      if($found_comment == 1) {
      	 $comments[$i] = $comments[$i] . $line;
      }
   }
}
close(IN) or die("Unable to close file - $input: $!");

#print output with a separator line between each element
for($j=0; $j<=$i; $j++) {
	print("comments[$j] = $comments[$j]");
	print("------------separator-------------------\n");
}