Pretend a file is a book that you're holding in your hand

You would use the same logic as reading a book

First step is writing that logic down as plain english (this is what the program does, this is how it does it)

No scratch that, first step, is explaining out loud what the problem is (read book to blah blah), and how you're going to solve it (open book, turn page, read line, blah blah )

Before you write any code (or perl-like pseudocode) you should at least read perlintro (and try out all the examples).

See an annotated example of pseudocode

Based on your post Read block of file and print to html table, I highly recommend reading a few chapters from Beginning Perl

See also How do I post a question effectively?

In reply to Re: how to read a particular paragraph from middle of a file line by line and enter each string in the line as an element of an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread how to read a particular paragraph from middle of a file line by line and enter each string in the line as an element of an array by rockstar99

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