Two approaches seem logical to me. First, similar to yours, based on regular expressions. I would slurp in the data in one go though and then replace superfluous pieces, like this:

use strict; use warnings; my $data; { local $/; $data=<DATA>; } $data =~ s/\n\s*\n(From: |To: |User-Agent: )/|/g; $data =~ s/Arrival Time: ([^|]*\|[^|]*\|[^|\n]*)\n/$1|--\n/g; print "Arrival Time|From|To|User-Agent\n\n"; print $data; __DATA__ Arrival Time: May 2, 2013 10:37:50.813000000 From: <sip:639gwhuaping01-14@119.38.228.43>;tag=70c8b229-1c To: <sip:639gwhuaping01-14@119.38.228.43> Arrival Time: May 2, 2013 10:38:05.274000000 From: <sip:639gwhuaping01-01@119.38.228.43>;tag=70c8b229-2 To: <sip:639gwhuaping01-01@119.38.228.43> Arrival Time: May 2, 2013 10:38:05.451000000 From: <sip:639gwhuaping01-11@119.38.228.43>;tag=70c8b229-16 To: <sip:639gwhuaping01-11@119.38.228.43> User-Agent: Quintum/1.0.0 SN/0030E130409A SW/P108-09-10

Alternatively, and probably easier to maintain, is to read the data into a hash and print/empty whenever a dataset is complete, like this (with the same __DATA__ segment as above):

use strict; use warnings; sub printdata { my $data = shift; $$data{"User-Agent"} //= "--"; print join "|", @$data{ ( "Arrival Time", "From", "To", "User- +Agent" ) }; print "\n\n"; %$data = (); } my %data; my ($item, $value); print "Arrival Time|From|To|User-Agent\n\n"; while(<DATA>){ chomp; next unless ($item, $value) = /^(.*?): (.*)/; printdata \%data if $item eq "Arrival Time" and %data; $data{$item} = $value; } printdata \%data; __DATA__ Arrival Time: May 2, 2013 10:37:50.813000000 ...

In reply to Re: Arranging multiple lines by hdb
in thread Arranging multiple lines by r2ro

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