Hi all, I'm trying to create a regex that will select multiple lines of text into an array, the regex starts with a keyword and then the end marker is a blank line. So far I have... @data is the read in log file that I'm trying to parse and extract from. My problem is that the blocks of text vary in the number of lines so counting on from the matching line will not work, but counting back from the end marker of a blank line will.

 if($data[$i] =~ /Message Type: /){
     $j=$i+13; #This will not work
         $k=$i+14; #This will not work
         @details0=split / /, $data[$i];
     @details1=split / /, $data[$j];
         @details2=split / /, $data[$k];
         $txname=$details0[2];
         $txtime=$details2[2];
         $errorcode=$details1[2];
            print OUT "$txname\t\t\t$txtime\t\t$errorcode\n";
            }

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Many many thanks from a rapidly balding chap in advance, Beeny

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