What about a loop-less solution? 

undef $/;
$_=<>;
s/(\n\037.*?\n\* Menu.*?\n\037)//;
$mymenu=$1;

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This way you put all input into one string, and just pick out the menus one by one. No tricky loops anymore. I don't know how much you rely on the markers to start at the beginning of the line, but you could remove the newlines in the regex, of course.

I pray I didn't say something very stupid here. Please excuse me if this is the case..... And credits to little, who only yesterday showed me the undef $/ trick.

Cheers,

Jeroen

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In reply to Re: RE: Control Flow Puzzle by jeroenes
in thread Control Flow Puzzle by Dominus

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