I have a log file as below; 
show tech-support details


-------------------- show switchname ------------------
CCC216_MX_RED
******************************************************************


-------------------- show interface mgmt0 ------------------
mgmt0 is up
    Hardware is FastEthernet
    Address is 000f.3494.9a0c
    Internet address is 10.3.811.51/20
    MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100 Mbps half Duplex
    67992323 packets input, 2147483647 bytes
      0 multicast frames, 0 compressed
      0 input errors, 0 frame, 0 overrun 0 fifo
    18569093 packets output, 1762088350 bytes, 0 underruns
      0 output errors, 29925 collisions, 281 fifo
      10686 carrier errors

******************************************************************


-------------------- show version ------------------
Cisco Storage Area Networking Operating System (SAN-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002-2004, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
The copyrights to certain works contained herein are owned by
other third parties and are used and distributed under license.
Some parts of this software are covered under the GNU Public
License. A copy of the license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

Software
  BIOS:      version 1.1.0
  loader:    version 1.2(2)
  kickstart: version 2.0(3)
  system:    version 2.0(3)

******************************************************************

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I need to read the file into an array where where each elemnt of the array is a chunk of data between a ------ and *****

I tried reading the whole file into a $data and then split it like so 
#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
use strict;

open (LST,"c:/test/showtech215.txt")||die "$^E ; $!\n";
chomp (my $data = <LST>);
print "$data"
#my @array = split /\*+/,$data;

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but the $data only contained the first line of the log file!

Any idea how can I achieve this?

Regards
Blackadder

In reply to Spliting a log file into chunks and saving it into an array by blackadder

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