Monks, I am faced with a task of reading a text file line by line, then analyzing each line. The "reading" part of the file by line is easier, but the "analyzing" part is what troubles me.

This is a sample of my text file:

1. What is my name?
A. Rooney *
B. Gerrard
C. Ronaldo
D. Ronaldinho
2. Who's your bet in the coming World Cup?
A. Brazil *
B. Germany
C. England
D. Cameroon

My code for reading each line goes like this: 
use FileHandle;

$fh = new FileHandle;
$fh->open("<c:\\test.txt") || die ("Could not open file!!!!. $!");

until ($fh->eof) {
  $tmp = $fh->getline;

  # If $tmp starts with any number followed by a period (it means that
+ the part after the period is the question portion), do FUNCTION1

  # If $tmp starts with a "letter" followed by a period (it means that
+ this is one of the choices), do FUNCTION2
}

$fh->close;

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In the above example, if:

$tmp = "1. What is my name?"

How will I match the "number" until it encounters a "period", discard this portion and assigns the remaining part to:

$question = "What is my name?"

Same goes for this also:

$tmp = "A. Rooney *"

How will I match the "letter" until it encounters a "period", discards this portion and assigns the remaining part to:

$choice_a = "Rooney *"

Also if it encounters "*" at the end of the choices, it removes this "*" and declares this as the answer:

Example:
$choice_a = "Rooney *" (becomes $choice_a = "Rooney" after "*" is removed)
$choice_b = "Gerrard"
$choice_c = "Ronaldo"
$choice_d = "Ronaldinho"

$answer = "Rooney"

Please bear with me as I am not good is regular expressions, matching, etc.

In reply to Reading a File by Line then Analyzing each Line by soon_j

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