So I'm new to Perl, and somewhat new to programming. I see the power of Perl and how it can save me hours and hours of work. I've been trying to write some code but, I'm having trouble getting started. I have some searchable PDF files containing some structured information from a database I've been able to extract. The info is broken up nicely and I can split it order by order. My problem is that each order has different number of invoices associated with it. What I need to do is extract information from each order, then extract information from each invoice, then print it out to a spreadsheet. Here's a sample of how my data is structured:

Orders Number 1 ... some stuff... _________ Class: Invoice 1 ...some stuff... __________ Payment Detail - Payment ID 1 ...some stuff... _________

Orders Number 2 ... some stuff... ________ Class: Invoice 1 some stuff... ___________ Payment Detail - Payment ID 1 ...some stuff... Payment Detail - Payment ID 2 ...some stuff... Payment Detail - Payment ID 3 ...some stuff... ________

If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Extracting data from a PDF to a spreadsheet by NonProgrammer

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