Anonymous Monk,
This code assumes that you will only have one "NAME" and one "TOYS" line per file since you don't say otherwise. It also uses a HoA for the datastructure since it fits your data more closely. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $file = 'file.txt';
open (INPUT , '<' , $file) or die "Unable to open $file for reading : 
+$!";

my %data;
while ( <INPUT> ) {
    if ( /-- Name:/ || /-- TOYS:/ ) {
        chomp;
        my $key = /-- Name:/ ? 'name' : 'toys';
        my @temp = split /\s+/;
        push @{ $data{$key} } , @temp[2 .. $#temp];
        last if exists $data{name} && exists $data{toys};
    }
}

for my $key ( qw(name toys) ) {
    print "$key :\n";
    print "\t$_\n" for @{ $data{$key} };
}
__END__
name :
        Menu
toys :
        car
        monkey
        moon

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: array issue by Limbic~Region
in thread array issue by Anonymous Monk

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