Hello everyone, I am hoping someone can please shed some light/point me in the right direction. I am trying to figure out how to search for the 1st occurrences of two strings and once they are found print all previous data.

The reason that I am looking for 1st occurrences of Subject followed by Content is that Content will sometimes show up in several places, but I only want to PRINT all data from the 1st Content: after the 1st Subject: match.

Below is some sample data which I would be working with, any pointers etc would be greatly appreciated.

Right now what I am doing is having to run matches on each line that I want to match and print on.

SAMPLE FILE DATA:

Sender: 123

Recipient:  aaa

Date: 2009/03/04

Content: data0039

Time: 08:20:01

Operator: test

Subject: test01

Content: data data

Subject: RE: test

Content: data2 data

Additional: additional data

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OUTPUT THAT I'M TRYING TO GET

So I want to find the First Occurrence of Subject: following by the first occurrence of Content: and print everything prior to the Content: match.

Sender: 123

Recipient:  aaa

Date: 2009/03/04

Content: data0039

Time: 08:20:01

Operator: test

Subject: test01

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In reply to Print data after to 1st occurrence matches by learningperl01

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