> Update ...

> ...

> but in the actual file there are three lines of text

not many will write speculative code for this vague description, at least I won't.

You need to provide a real data snippet "from the actual file".

E.g. it's completely unclear how to distinguish "text" from the rest.

And in general please show more effort to code it yourself with the techniques learned from this thread.

otherwise ppl will start to complain that this is not a "code writing service"

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: Help with parsing a file (real input please) by LanX
in thread Help with parsing a file by Odar

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