Hi, I'm trying to parse some text and put the data into a CSV format. I thought it would be simple, but I still can't figure out what I'm missing. The text contains repeating lines, alternating between username information and last login times, like this: 
Username: JANDERSON                            Owner:  JOE ANDERSON
Last Login: 14-JAN-2002 08:14 (interactive),  4-MAR-2002 17:09 (non-in
+teractive)
Username: PBARRETT                           Owner:  PAUL BARRETT
Last Login: 18-JAN-2006 08:14 (interactive),  24-MAR-2005 17:09 (non-i
+nteractive)

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... and so on. I want the output to look like 
JANDERSON,JOE ANDERSON,14-JAN-2002 08:14,4-MAR-2002 17:09
PBARRETT,PAUL BARRETT,18-JAN-2006 08:14,24-MAR-2005 17:09

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So I thought the following code would be a good start - 

while (<IN>) {
        next if (/^\s*$/);
        chop;
        if (/^Username\:\s+([\w\s]+)\s+Owner\:\s+(.*)$/) {
                $username = $1;
                $desc = $2;
                print "$username,$desc,";
        }
        elsif (s/^(Last Login\:\s*)//) {
                ($login_times{"i"}, $login_times{"ni"}) = split /,/, $
+_;
                print "$login_times{\"i\"}, $login_times{\"ni\"}\n"; 
        }
        else {
                die "line invalid - $_, $!\n";
        }
}
close (IN);

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But when I run the code, it doesn't print anything for $username or $desc, even though I know it captures $1 and $2 correctly, as I put in debug statements, showing what they were.

Anybody know what I'm missing here?

In reply to Parsing Text into CSV by bowei_99

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