I have a large number of files, each of which follows a similar format. In each one there is a section I want to focus on which looks like this

Company Name Acme Inc
Something:
 this
Something else:
 that
Something else:
 etc.
Sales 
2011 Sales:
 €3,000

()
2010 Sales:
 €2,000

()
2011 Growth Rate:
 50.00%

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Essentially I want to parse only the sales figures (and accompanying headings) from this text file into a csv file, so it would look like below

Company Name    2011 Sales    2010 Sales    2011 Growth Rate
Acme Inc        3,000         2,000         50.00%

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Ideally I would love to have a single piece of code to run through the many similar text files and create a single csv file of all this sales data but since I'm completely new to Perl, probably wiser to try get the first file done first! I imagine Perl is the best tool for this task but I'm at a loss how to start so any guidance would be most appreciated!

In reply to Output particular sections of txt file to csv? by Anonymous Monk

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