Small amount of help follows:
while(<DATA>){ if(/^(BCG-\d+)/){$bcg = $1} # current BCG, maybe? if(/^( SNB\w+)/){$snb = $1} # current SNB, maybe? @stuff = split(/\s+/); # put lines into an array if ($stuff[3] eq 'BL-TRX'){ # if the BLT is found print "here's an interesting BCG:\n$bcg $snb @stuff\n"; # report that it has been found } } __DATA__ BCG-011 ULTRASITE U WO 1 BC011 WO + 05823 00051 BTS-025 U WO 0 0 SNBXCASD005X RF + 3 TRX-001 U WO 713 0 117 MBCCH P 4 TRX-002 U WO 729 0 117 0 05823 00052 BTS-026 U WO 0 0 SNBXCASD005Y RF + 3 TRX-005 U WO 722 0 117 MBCCH P 3 TRX-006 U BL-TRX 731 0 117 8 05823 00053 BTS-027 U WO 0 1
Though I have no idea if that actually helps because your data is just random noise to me.

Also I just bet some smarter monk than me is going to come along and say "what you've got there is a classic BCG file format and you should use File::Formats::Weird::BCG.pm to handle it for you!".
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In reply to Re: Newbie Needs Help! by Cody Pendant
in thread Getting a Human Readable Report from a data file by gargs

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