in reply to Parsing a text file in Perl.

Since you know where the Human readable code starts, extract it from each line and build up a string of readable text. Extract the data you need and go on to the next line.

Note: each new entry in the testing log starts with the characters '[-', so you know when you have reached the end of the first line and the beginning of the next.

Now, the real question -- why on God's Green Earth are you not using the original log? Going through all this mishigas to interpret a dump-format?!?? Sheesh, do it the simple way....

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