I think the regex you are looking for, in this particular case is: 
/^\s+Order ID:([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\s+fiscal cycle:(\d+)/

[download]

perlrequick perlre

To approach the original problem, I think you should develop a routine which will read a record into a buffer, and have a separate routine which will handle the parsing of one record. You can then use different routines within your parsing "framework" to handle the parsing of different structures.

Some pseudocode: 
my $in_rec = 0;
my ($head_re, $tail_re) = (qr/Start of record/, qr/End of record/);
my @record;

while (<>) {
  chomp;
  if ($in_rec) {
    if (/$tail_re/) { 
      $in_rec = 0; 
      parse_record(@record);
    }
    push @record, $_;
  } else {
    if (/$head_re/) {
      $in_rec = 1;
      @record = ();
    }
    push @record, $_ if $in_rec;
  }
}

[download]

I hope this makes sense, also bear in mind this is only pseudocode, trying to demonstrate the logic I would go for, not actual parsing.

In reply to Re: How best to strip text from a file? by hperange
in thread How best to strip text from a file? by bobdabuilda

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.