Something like this would also do the trick.

If your record names are going to really be numeric in nature
there are advantages to storing the data in an array rather than a hash as shown here. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Data::Dumper;

my %records;

{
    local $/ = 'calendar: '; # record separator.

    while ( <DATA> )
    {
        push( @{$records{$1}}, split(/\n+|calendar: /) )
            if ( s/Calendar_([0-9]+)_test\n+// );
    }
}

print Dumper( \%records );

__DATA__
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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Outputs: 

:!./test.pl
$VAR1 = {
          '1' => [
                   '11/01/03',
                   '11/02/03'
                 ],
          '2' => [
                   '01/02/03',
                   '01/04/03'
                 ],
          '3' => [
                   '03/01/03',
                   '03/02/03'
                 ]
        };

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Once the data has been parsed into the hash or array, you can simply access
the dates you want and print them to a file.

print FILE @{$records{1}}

Best Regards,
Wonko

In reply to Re: How do I extract data? by Wonko the sane
in thread How do I extract data? by cutter

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