I have a text file that is similar to this: 
SAC BUNTS
5346|Ron Villone|17|Cincinnati Reds|1

SAC FLIES
5746|Pokey Reese|17|Cincinnati Reds|1

STOLEN BASES
4159|Dante Bichette|17|Cincinnati Reds|1|2

CAUGHT STEALING
5602|Edgar Renteria|24|St. Louis Cardinals|1|3

PITCHING
24|St. Louis Cardinals
4379|Andy Benes|L, 2-2|0|6|8|3|3|0|0|1|24|31|41|72|4.41|.258
4625|Heathcliff Slocumb|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|4|3|8|11|4.08|.231
4979|Mike Mohler|0|0|1|0|0|0|1|3|0|4|8|9|17|8.79|.293

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I am trying to use the following code to pull out everything from the file except the PITCHING information. I have been unable to get all of the information I need. Any suggestions? 
open(INPUT,"c:/MLB_boxscore.TXT") or die "Can't open file";
print "<html><head><title>My page</title></head><body>";
print "<table>";
my $insection = "";
while (<INPUT>) {
 
 if (/^SAC\s+BUNTS/) { $insection="sac bunts" }
 if (/^SAC\s+FLIES/) { $insection="sac flies" }
 if (/^STOLEN\s+BASES/) { $insection="stolen bases" }
 if (/^CAUGHT\s+STEALING) { $insection="caught stealing" }
 if (/^PITCHING/) { $insection="pitching" }
 
 if(defined($oldsection) && $insection ne $oldsection) {
  undef $oldsection;
 }
 elsif (defined($oldsection) && $insection eq $oldsection) {
    if ($insection == "scoring position"){
        last if /^([A-Z][A-Z\s]*)/;
        chomp;
        @LS = ();
        push @LS, split('\|',$_);
        print "<tr>"; 
            print "<td>" . $LS[$_] . "</td>" for (1..$#LS);
        print "</tr>"; }
 }
 elsif ($insection && !defined($oldsection)) {
  $oldsection = $insection;
  next;
 }
}


print "</table></body></html>";
close INPUT;

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