The A and the Z are the file header and footer. Within the file header and footer there can be multiple transactions. The H and the S are the transaction header records for TL and LTL respectively. The C is the Carrier record, it occurs once per H or S, the L is the Location record, will have an L record for each pick-up and delivery location. The R, O, I and P records are the order records and can occur multiple times for each stop (L record). Below is an example of an ROI abc file.

1. The input file is abc.txt

2. Check file for TL header records (adds, deletes, modifies) identified by "HA", "HD" and "HM".

2a) Check Art file for the LTL header records (adds, deletes,modifies) identified by "SA" , "SD" and "SM".

3. For Adds, ("HA", "SA"), catch email value.(It should be in between "P" records (order R, O, I and P).

4. For Modifications, ("HM", "SM"), catch email value.(It should be in between "P" records (order R, O, I and P).

I would like to catch email address values before HATL or SALTL or HMTL or SMLTL or HDTL or SDLTL line starts...

I started writing like this ... 

#!/usr/bin/perl

open SEE ,"c:/abc.txt";
@ok=<SEE>;
close(SEE);

foreach(@ok)
{
if($_ =~ /HATL/)
{
($o,$t) = split(/\s+/, $_);
print "second value $t<br>";

### I would like to catch email address values before HATL or SALTL li
+ne starts...
### How can i do that?
}

if($_ =~ /SALTL/)
{
($o,$t) = split(/\s+/, $_);
print "second value $t<br>";
}

}

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Please try to provide a soln... Thanks

update (broquaint): added formatting + dropped customer data sample

In reply to catch values from txt file by Anonymous Monk

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