Sorry about the late reply, but I just discovered a very short solution that you may like. I wrote a windows batch file which I believe simulates yours. The perl program executes the batch file and accepts its output. The -n switch takes care of all input and looping. The BEGIN block tells perl to open a socket to the batch file. The match parses the input and eliminates all lines that are not needed. One print statement prints all the data. A newline is printed after a status. 
C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>type results.bat
@echo off
echo Student Name    = Harry
echo Student Code    = student_id_1
echo Exam Status     = PASSED
echo -------------------------------------
echo Student Name    = Mike
echo Student Code    = student_id_2
echo Exam Status     = PASSED
echo -------------------------------------
echo Student Name    = Tom
echo Student Code    = student_id_3
echo Exam Status     = PASSED
echo -------------------------------------

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>type sreek350_2.pl
#!perl -n
use strict;
use warnings;
BEGIN{ unshift @ARGV, "results.bat |" }

next unless /^(Student Name|Exam Status) +\= (.*)$/;
printf "%-8s", $2;
printf "\n" if ($1 eq 'Exam Status');

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>perl sreek350_2.pl
Harry   PASSED
Mike    PASSED
Tom     PASSED

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>

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Bill

In reply to Re: Print the output results of matching line horizontally by BillKSmith
in thread Print the output results of matching line horizontally by sreek3502

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