I'm surprised none of the replies so far used the range operator. I think it's the right tool for the job. This code is tested and working on Linux:

my $chunk = 0;
my @data;
open my $infd, '<', 'foo' or die "open: $!";
while (<$infd>) {
  next unless (my $c = /^-+/ .. /^\*+$/);
  next if ($c == 1);
  $chunk++, next if ($c =~ /E0$/);
  $data[$chunk] .= $_;
}
close $infd;
## show results
for (0..$chunk-1) {
  print "-- beginning of chunk $_ --\n",
    $data[$_],
    "-- end of chunk $_ --\n";
}

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Don't forget to s|foo|c:/test/showtech215.txt|; and s|(\$!)|\$^E $1|;.

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David Serrano

In reply to Re: Spliting a log file into chunks and saving it into an array by Hue-Bond
in thread Spliting a log file into chunks and saving it into an array by blackadder

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