Re: Parsing a Formatted Text File

Is there anything in your file you could use as a record separator? Then you just have to read all lines up to the next separator.

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Re^2: Parsing a Formatted Text File by Pharazon (Acolyte) on Mar 23, 2015 at 15:40 UTC
Using UltraEdit I can see a page break character at the beginning of each record after the first but it is not a newline character.	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing a Formatted Text File by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 23, 2015 at 16:08 UTC
so use the "page break character" as your input_record_separator (paragraph delimiter). see `$/` documented at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html Spirit of the Monastery	[reply] [d/l] [select]