Hi

I have a text file in the format below:

T1 Line1
T2 Line2
   Line3
   Line4
T3 Line5
   Line6
ER

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Basically it is a tagged file and I need to load it into a hash. As you can see it has potentially has more than one line per tag. I want to create a hash that maps each tag (tags are unique) to an array of the lines associated with that tag, i.e.

T2 => (Line2,Line3,Line4)

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Tag names are always two letter but may be arbitrary and therefore cannot be hardcoded, however, the file is always terminated by a tag named ER.

Can anyone provide me with the code to translate this text into a hash to my requirements, I just can't seem to handle the multiline case.

Thanks in advance

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Arun

In reply to Parsing a Tagged File Format by arunhorne

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