Hi, I am trying to learn Perl by doing and it is getting like I am sewing my parachute together in the air. What I am trying to do is extract a specific string from a file and write it to another file. For example what I want to extract from the sample data is the entry calendar: Calendar_1_test and the dates following it. 
calendar: Calendar_1_test
11/01/03
11/02/03
calendar: Calendar_2_test
01/02/03
01/04/03
calendar: Calendar_3_test
03/01/03
03/02/03

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Some code I have tried follows. It does not find the dates associated with the calender entry.I have looked at the PerlFAQ and just about had my head explode reading the Doc for Parse-RecDescent module. Any help apprecated. 
$file="test_file.txt";
$StrSearch = "calendar: Calendar_2_test";

open TEST, $file;
while (<TEST>) {
if (/$StrSearch/) {
print "1\n";}
else {
if (/$StrSearch(.*?)calendar/qs){
print "1\n";}

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