Hi.

I have the following code:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

#read input data:
my @rows; 

#set record separator to 3 line feeds.     
local $/ = "\n\n\n";
while ( <> ) {
   next unless m/Dumpdata example/;
   #map key-values out of this 'chunk'. 
   my %row = m/\s*(\w+)\S*\s+(\S.*)/g; 
   push @rows, \%row; 
}

#print whole data structure for debugging:
print Dumper \@rows;

#define columns and ordering for output:
my @output_cols = qw /Info Detail Warning Spec/;

#iterate rows
foreach my $row ( @rows ) {
    #print fields selected from output_cols. 
   #use a 'hash slice' - look it up in perl docs. 
   print join ";", @{$row}{@output_cols},"\n";
}

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It works just fine except for the problem, that it ends at the line end.
If for example Info is on 2 lines I only get the first part in the output. 

Dumpdata example
-----------------

Warning bad news here 
    Detail:              Some really nice infos these are 
    Info:              This is a problem
                       but there is a solution
    Spec:              2nd of 4

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<Update>
The expected output for this should be:

"bad news here"; "Some really nice infos these are"; "This is a proble
+m but there is a solution"; "2nd of 4"

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Thanks you haukex for reminding me to post that too.
</Update>

My above code would return This is a problem but it should return This is a problem but there is a solution

Any ideas on how to get this done?

Thank you so much

Arengin

In reply to Joining multiple lines together while parsing by Arengin

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