Anonymous Monk,
May I suggest Data Munging with Perl as a good place to start. I would also highly recommend Mastering Regular Expressions. I am going to give your problem a stab just because I haven't ever done something like this before in Perl.

Beware untested code - dragons lie ahead! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open (INPUT,"file") or die "Unable to open file : $!";

open (OUTPUT,">outfile") or die "Problem with outfile : $!";
select OUTPUT;

$/ = "";
$\ = "\n";

my @data;
my $foo;
my $bar;
while (<INPUT>) {
    my @lines = split /\n/;
    my $blah;
    while (my $line = shift @lines) {
        $line =~ s/^\s*//;
        last if ($line =~ /^Total/);
        next if (/^\s*$/);
        if ($line =~ /^([^:]*):(.*)$/) {        
            $foo = $1;
            $bar = $2;
            next;
        }
        elsif ($line =~ /^(\d+)$/) {
            $blah = $1;
            next;
        }
        else {
            my @stuff = split /\s{2,}/ , $line;
            push @data , join ',' , ($bar, "\"$foo\"", $blah, "\"$stuf
+f[0]\"", "\"$stuff[1]\"", $stuff[2]);
        }
    }
}
print foreach(@data);

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Now as I said - I wrote that code just because I have never done this sort of thing before. That means I am not very experienced and there is most likely a better way.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: pulling fields out of a ascii print file by Limbic~Region
in thread pulling fields out of a ascii print file by Anonymous Monk

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