You can do it simply with regular expressions: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

local $/;
my $result = <DATA>;

print "task name = ", $result =~ /task\.name:(.*)$/m, "\n";
print "task mod time = ", $result =~ /task\.lastmodifiedtime:(.*)$/m, 
+"\n";

__DATA__
task.start
# task.id: 1
task.name:"abc"
task.info: xyz
task.schedule: 
task.notify:
task.nextruntime:
task.lastmodifiedtime: 2010-04-12T11:57:56+01:00 by user1@server1
task.args:

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but this may not be the best choice depending on how much manipulation you want to do. If you are going to want to do more than just print, splitting into a hash or even a hash of hashes may be a better choice.

In reply to Re: Nested search and print by kennethk
in thread Nested search and print by dilip_val

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