Greetings monks!

I'm in Iraq right now, and trying to work out a quick script to pull some information out of files for me. As such, my reading and web time is limited, so I was hoping that you folks could help me out.

Basically I have a file, inside is a bunch of text. Within it, are lines like this: 
# STANDARD This is some text that describes
function seventhdoesnotgetenoughsleep

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Probably 20 or so instances of stuff like that. A description, then a function name. What I need to do is open the file, pull out the two lines as a pair (I assume two arrays?) and then spit 'em back out into another file with HTML code around them.

So basically:

- Open file.name
- Look for instances of # STANDARD -text text text-
- Look for the following function
- Group 'em, repeat for each
- Creat a new file named *.html, and format the output accordingly (the HTML is the easy part, I think!)

Sorry to lay it all on you guys, but there isn't much time to read up over here, any help at all would really be appreciated! Thanks!

Edit by holli: added code tags around sample data

In reply to Newbie question, advice appreciated by Seventh

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