You could also break this up a bit and handle the input per record the way you would like. Personally I also find this a little easier to read and maintain. The key from above is setting the input line separator:

$/ = "\nS"; # or $/ = "Symmetrix ID:\n"

Which will allow you to open the command output to a filehandle and use a while loop, where each iteration is an individual record. You can then easily parse out the information you want:

open(FH,"-|", "symdev list -v") or die $!;
while (<FH>) {
  my $symm_id = my $others = undef; # or '';

  if ( m/Symmetrix ID/ ) 
  {  
     $symm_id = ( m/Symmetrix ID\s+:\s+(\d+)/ );
  }
  
  # etc
}

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HTH!

In reply to Re^2: Multiple line records from a command string by spq
in thread Multiple line records from a command string by Preceptor

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