Hi,

I am generating CSV event log files and some of the lines are not on one line, for example:

I want to read everyline that matches KB[0-9] and store that data on the end of the previous line and keep doing that until it reaches a line that does not match KB[0-9].

My code as usual is failing miserably. (in the example below I tried to read the KB lines into a temporary variable. 

while (<__DATA__>)  {

# I don't know how to calculate the length $# of __DATA__
# so I just put 10 in there instead.
    for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)  {
        if($data[$i] =~ m/KB[0-9]/) {
                do {
                        push(@temp, $data[$i]);
                        $i++;
                }while ($data[$i] =~ m/KB[0-9]/);
        }
    }
    # For some reason the loop is loading the whole file
    # into @temp
    print "@temp\n";
}

__DATA__
"Information","17","4/13/2006 12:54:25 PM","Windows Update Agent","ISA
+","Installation","N/A","Installation Ready: The following updates are
+ downloaded and ready for installation. To install the updates, an ad
+ministrator should log on to this computer and Windows will prompt wi
+th further instructions:
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB911562)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2006 (KB890830)
- Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Server 
+2003 (KB912812)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB908531)
- Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express for Windows Server 20
+03 (KB911567)"
"Information","17","4/13/2006 12:54:19 PM","Windows Update Agent","ISA
+","Installation","N/A","Installation Ready: The following updates are
+ downloaded and ready for installation. To install the updates, an ad
+ministrator should log on to this computer and Windows will prompt wi
+th further instructions:
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB911562)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2006 (KB890830)
- Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Server 
+2003 (KB912812)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB908531)"

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Please help :(

In reply to Problem with matching multiple lines by jeiku

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