Greetings, New here. Just learning Perl too. :-) I'm parsing through a test file. I need to parse through the text file until I find HW/OS/Client, print that line and then print each subsequent line of "clients" until the line read from the text file is blank. The text section in this very large text file looks something like this:
HW/OS/Client: PC Windows2003 server1
PC Windows2003 server2
PC Windows2003 server3
PC Windows2003 server4
PC Windows2000 server5
PC Windows2000 server6
(blank line here)
----more text in the file goes on from here----

In case you are wondering, I'm parsing through a Netbackup policy dump file and gathering up info on all the "Active" backup policies.

Thanks,
Dennis

In reply to How to print certain lines out of a text file. by sawdustar

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