Hello, I am trying to process a text file and print the output in a desired format. I am able to get a small piece of the code working, however i am finding it difficult to produce the results as expected, did some research and experimented with loading to hash etc. Didnt work as expected , any advice on how to proceed would really help. SCRIPT 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $data = 'input.txt';
my $placeholder = '';

unless(open(INPUT, $data)) { die "Can't open input file $data\n"; }

# Print heading
print "Product Release    product Type   color basic   color all    ov
+erseas shipping\n";

while(my $line = <INPUT>)
 {
    if($line =~ m/Release Date(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/)
  {
    print "$line";
  }
 }
close INPUT;

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INPUT FILE (input.txt) 
Release Date2/2/2019
  product clock1(analog)
  color basic white
  color all white,black,silver
  warranty 1 year
  not sold yet

Release Date2/2/2020
  product none

Release Date2/2/2021
  product clock1(digital)
  color basic black
  color all black,silver
  warranty 1 year
  not sold yet

Release Date2/2/2022
  product clock2(digital)
  color basic white
  color all white
  overseas shipping yes
  shipping charges yes
  warranty 1 year
  not sold yet

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RESULTS 
$ ./generate.pl 
Product Release    product Type   color basic   color all    overseas 
+shipping
Release Date2/2/2019
Release Date2/2/2020
Release Date2/2/2021
Release Date2/2/2022
$

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DESIRED RESULTS 
Product Release         product Type   color basic   color all        
+       overseas shipping
Release Date2/2/2019    analog         white         white,black,silve
+r      N/A
Release Date2/2/2020    none           N/A           N/A              
+       N/A
Release Date2/2/2021    digital        black         black,silver     
+       N/A
Release Date2/2/2022    digital        white         white            
+       yes

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In reply to process multiline text and print in desired format by ak_mmx

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