I checked the Nagios::Object::Config; but I dont think its for me, since I just need to parse a .cfg file and I am not even in the nagios server...

If I just could find an element "{" inside the array mark its index find the end element "}" then split its values...

someone must have done simillar to these, I have searched for hours about arrays in perl but still no good...

my $use = "";
my $sd = "";
my $count = 1;
my $bset= 0;    # if new SD was set,change to 1, 0 means it was not se
+t.
my $bend = 0;   # means definition is ended } was found 1, 0 means sti
+ll needs to close definition.
open (TEXT_FILE, "<test.txt"); 
open (MYFILE, '>services2.cfg');

while ($line = <TEXT_FILE>) {
print MYFILE $line;
print $count ." - " . $line;

        if ($line =~ m/use/) {
$bset = 0;
$bend = 0;
print "-----Reseting bset and bend\n";
                $host = <TEXT_FILE> ;
print MYFILE $host;
        $nextline3 = <TEXT_FILE> ;
        $nextline4 = <TEXT_FILE> ;
        $nextline5 = <TEXT_FILE> ;
        $nextline6 = <TEXT_FILE> ;
        $use = $line; 
        $use =~ s/use//;
        $use = trim($use);    
        $host =~ s/host_name//;    
        $host = trim($host);
        print $count . ". ", color("white") .  $host ."\n", color("res
+et");

# Should check if any of the lines already have service_description or
+ }
#could use a loop foreach ($nextline(i))...i++

#Line 3
        if ($nextline3 =~ m/}/ ) {
#service_description does not exist and was not set, we are in the las
+t line, we add SD and } and define service of next
            printf ("(L3=}) Adding SD and }\n");
            $sd = sdparse($use); 
            print color("yellow"), "\n-->NEW SD: ". $sd ."\n", color("
+reset");    
            print MYFILE "    service_description      ". $sd."\n}\n\n
+define service{\n";
            $bset = 1;
            $bend = 1;
        } 

        if ($nextline3 =~ m/service_description/ && $bend eq 0) {
            print "(L3) SD here. \n";
            print MYFILE $nextline3;        
            $bset = 1;


        }
        if ($nextline3 !~ m/service_description/ && $bset eq 0 && $ben
+d eq 0) {
            print MYFILE $nextline3;
        }

if ($nextline4 =~ m/}/  && $bend eq 0 && $bset eq 0) {
#service_description does not exist and was not set, we are in the las
+t line, we add SD and } and define service of next
                printf ("(L4=}) Adding SD and }\n");
                $sd = sdparse($use); 
                print color("yellow"), "\n-->NEW SD: ". $sd ."\n", col
+or("reset");    
                print MYFILE "    service_description    ". $sd."\n}\n
+define service{\n\n";
                $bset = 1;
                $bend = 1;
        }
        if ($nextline4 =~ m/service_description/ && $bset eq 0 && $ben
+d eq 0)  {
            print "(L4) SD here. \n";
            print MYFILE $nextline4;
            $bset = 1;            
        }    
        if ($nextline4 !~ m/service_description/ && $bend eq 0  ) {
            if ($bset eq 0) {
                print "(L4) Is not SD,and SD not found so far keep goi
+ng. \n"; 
                print MYFILE $nextline4;        
            }
            if ($bset eq 1) {    
                print MYFILE $nextline4;        
            }
        }

#Line 5 etc....
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