Hi monks, I have a text file in this format: 
(Special)
TG: VIN:1000000
type: a very special type of plane

(Special)
TG: VIN:1000001
type: a very special type of car

(Special)
TG: VIN:1000002
type: a very special type of boat

this repeats many times..

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What I would like to do is, loop through this text file line by line and extract whatever comes after "TG:" and store as a key to a hash, and extract whatever comes after "type:" and store as a value to the key that was just stored. This is what I have so far: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;


my $textfile = 'file.txt';
open(TEXT, '<', $textfile) or die $!;

my %hash;

local $/="(Special)";
while(<TEXT>){
      if ($_ =~ /TG:\s(VIN:\d+)\ntype:\s(.+)\n/){
         my $keys = $1;
         my $values = $2;
         $hash{$keys} = $values;
      }
}

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I then print the hash but I only get the first entry in the hash, as if the loop stopped after the first iteration. What could be the problem here? Is it the regex? Thank you in advance for your wisdom!!

In reply to extracting strings from text file by pearllearner315

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