I have sample data such as: 
object network Microsoft.Lync.Host.3
 host 138.108.25.111
 description Help Desk Ticket #476739
object network Microsoft.Lync.Host.4
 host 138.108.25.112
 description Help Desk Ticket #476739
object network Microsoft.Lync.Host.5
 host 138.108.25.113
 description Help Desk Ticket #476739
object network Microsoft.Lync.Host.6

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I need to extract each object into its own hash that I'll then roll up into an AoH. I have tried changing the delimiter $/ but I think that can only be a static string and each 'object network' line finishes with a unique name. I couldn't find any way to make the delimiter regex based (which I think would solve my problem unless the delimiter is removed/consumed when parsing records). I next thought about reading the whole file to an array and processing records in line batches. However some objects have a description, making it a batch of 3 lines, whereas some don't making it a batch of 2. I suppose I could do some work processing the array to look for whether or not the line has a description, but I feel like I am way over-thinking this. I also tried to extract text between lines, but I don't have unique START/END variables like examples showing the use of range /START/ .. /END/. I tried anyways using a regex match looking for just text between groupings of /object network/ but that was exclusive/destructive and I began to lose records. I can post some code if necessary.

I'm sure one of the Monks here has a solution! Thanks in advance.

In reply to Extract Data Between Lines by namelkcip

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