It looks like the output is block oriented. Each block begins with /^AMQ8409/ and ends with end.

Can you read all of the output in at once? If so, you can use the /g regular expression modifier like this:

while ($output =~ m/...re.../sg) { ... process block ... }
The regular expression could be something like:
$re = qr{AMQ8409.*?QUEUE\((.*?)\).*?RQMNAME\((.*?)\).*?RNAME\((.*?)\). +*?end};
Note, this assumes that all blocks will have QUEUE, RQMNAME and RNAME in them and in that order. A more general approach is to break it up into blocks and then parse out anything that looks like IDENT(...) into a hash:
while ($output =~ m/(AMQ8409.*?end)/gs) { my $block = $1; my %hash; while ($block =~ m{(\w+)\((.*?)\)}g) { $hash{$1} = $2; } # process block # use $hash{QUEUE}, $hash{RQMNAME}, $hash{RNAME}, etc. }
Finally, for a line-oriented processing solution, try something like:
my %hash; while (<>) { if (m/^AMQ8904/) { # start of block found %hash = (); } elsif (m/end/) { # end of block found ... process block ... } else { $hash{QUEUE} = $1 if m/QUEUE\((.*)\)/; $hash{RNAME} = $1 if m/RNAME\((.*)\)/; # ... add more variables of interest ... } }

In reply to Re: capturing from Input file by pc88mxer
in thread capturing from Input file by Anonymous Monk

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