Hello All, I am doing some parsing of a file.the file out is read based on horizontal headers which are dynamic based on the machine specifications.I want to parse just devices and names, but not sure how to attribute all the devices to the names. Sample: 

name    Brian
shirt  yellow
socks   black
device ipad  2001
device ipad  2001
device ipad   2001
tag   no
tag    0   
name    Andrew
shirt  orange
socks   black
device ipad 2009
tag   no
tag    0
name    ryan
shirt  blue
socks   black
device ipad  2005
device cell   2009
tag   yes
tag    1

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I have the following so far, but not sure how to get all the devices and year of the device belonging to each name.I can parse for the name 

 my @file = `cat text.txt`;
 foreach my $line (@file)
{ 
while $line =~ /name \s+(*.?) \s+(.*?)/mgx
my $name = $1;
}

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In reply to perl parsing by cbtshare

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