Thank you Guys for your assistnace

I figured our a pattern and used it

Line pattern as follows:
/^\S/ # at least one followed by
/^\s/ # and there are two lines of this

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The line I needed we just before the /^\s/ line.
I was able to follow this pattern and print the desired
info out to yet another file

the following script is what I used:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $previous_line = "";
my $line = "";

open (DATA, "/export/home/webadm/scripts/data/fourth_parse");

while (<DATA>) {
    chop;
    $line = $_;
    if ($line =~ /^\s/ && $previous_line =~ /^\S/) 
    {
    print "$previous_line\n";
        }
    else
    {
        if ($line =~ /^\sR*/ && $previous_line =~ /^\sR*/)
        {
        print "$previous_line\n";
        print "$line\n";
        }
    }
    $previous_line = $line;
}

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Thank you again for your support
Erik

In reply to Re: Re: printing needed info only by Er1kW
in thread printing needed info only by Er1kW

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