You can achieve what you want like so:
use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $device_id = {}; my $id = ""; while (<DATA>) { chomp; if (m/Logical.+=(.+?)$/) { $id = $1; } else { if (m/.+?\s+?(c.+?)\s+?.+?$/) { push @{ $device_id->{$id} }, $1; } } } print Dumper($device_id); __DATA__ ### HEADING OF RECORD 1 #### Logical device ID=08E1 LINE_THAT_DOES_NOT_BOTHER_ME ANOTHER_LINE_THAT_DOES_NOT_BOTHER_ME 29 8/0/2/1/0.18.152.0.0.6.1 c29t6d1 FA 5eA 30 8/0/3/1/0.17.152.0.0.6.1 c30t6d1 FA 12e 31 8/0/8/1/0.17.150.0.0.6.1 c31t6d1 FA 10eA 32 8/0/9/1/0.18.150.0.0.6.1 c32t6d1 FA 11eA ### HEADING OF RECORD 2 #### Logical device ID=08E2 LINE_THAT_DOES_NOT_BOTHER_ME ANOTHER_LINE_THAT_DOES_NOT_BOTHER_ME 29 8/0/2/1/0.18.152.0.0.4.1 c29t4d1 FA 5eA 30 8/0/3/1/0.17.152.0.0.4.1 c30t4d1 FA 12eA 31 8/0/8/1/0.17.150.0.0.4.1 c31t4d1 FA 10eA 32 8/0/9/1/0.18.150.0.0.4.1 c32t4d1 FA 11eA ### HEADING OF RECORD 3 #### (...)
output: $VAR1 = { '08E2' => [ 'c29t4d1', 'c30t4d1', 'c31t4d1', 'c32t4d1' ], '08E1' => [ 'c29t6d1', 'c30t6d1', 'c31t6d1', 'c32t6d1' ] };
In reply to Re: How can i catch strings matching a regex across multiple lines?
by 2teez
in thread How can i catch strings matching a regex across multiple lines?
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