I'm working on a program that will make and keep track of notes. That's beside the point though, my reall problem is that I'm not sure how to parse my note file.
The file would look something like this:

04/01/2002 19:57 
FOOBARS 
>>my favorite candy by far!
yummy!
-----
04/03/2002 07:34
Ooh, it looks as if it might rain tomorrow.
    note to self {buy buy buy!}
-----
04/12/2002 12:02
Energy X invasion point++
-----
04/12/2002 12:56
Crisis resolved
(that was fun!)
-----

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With each not starting with a timestamp, and ending with "-----." I want is parsed so all the formatting (tabs and newlines) are kept. I'd like it parsed into $month, $day, $year, $time, and $body variables. I'm not exactly sure how I could use regexps and splits (or something I'm not thinking of now) to parse it.

> munchie, the number munchin newb
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(you had to be there :-P)

Edit kudra, 2002-05-03 Changed title

In reply to How to parse text file with clear delimiters: regex? split? by munchie

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