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Read your file in a loop. Chomp inside the loop, then capture into $1 with m/^(\d+)\s{4}/. Save what's in $1 for later. Substitute away that initial stuff so that it doesn't get in the way of your subsequent parsing. Then just prepend what you saved up front per line to the front of your output for that line after parsing the ranges.

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Dave

In reply to Re^3: break-down ranges by davido
in thread break-down ranges by Anonymous Monk

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