Hello everyone,

If I have a file in which I am searching for any line beginning with "Open Square Bracket" and ending with "Close Square Bracket" and then saving all such matching lines in an Array called @BROKERS. How would I tell perl to go through the file again, matching on each element of @Brokers, and then after it found a line that matched that element push each subsidiary line that followed into an array named $BROKER[x] until a blank line is reached. At this point the loop should continue to the next element of @BROKERS and repeat the above proccess until there are no elements left.

I am very new to perl and languages in general so please excusive the crudity of the code I have written so far. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#

my @BROKERS;

open (CONFIG, "ubroker.properties") || die "Can't Open ubroker file: $
+!";

while (<CONFIG>)
  {
    next if /^#/;
    if (/^\[UBroker\.WS\./)
    {
    push (@BROKERS,$_);
    }
  }
chomp @BROKERS;
while (<CONFIG>)
  {
    foreach $b(@BROKERS)
     {
       if (/$b/)
         {
# Here is where I run out of steam
# Begin Metacode
          read each line and push ($_,@"$b") continue to do this until
+ a newline is reached.  When a newline is reached intialize the next 
+$b as an array and repeat the above proccess until all elements of @B
+ROKERS are exhausted.

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I hope the question ain't to crude, if it is I'll be glad to expand on it!
Thanks!
Pat

Edit by tye

In reply to Appropriate application of readline by quasimojo

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