in reply to extracting data and saving into seperate files
The program you might be looking for might be this :
perl -ne '/(\S+\.csv)/ and open X, ">$1" and next; next if /=/ or /^\s +*$/; s/^\s+//; print X' inputfile
Of course, you don't want to do it like that :)
The key things to keep in mind are triggering an output destination swap when you see a filename, and triggering an output print when you see output you intend to store. Nothing else matters.
You don't need an array of files. You don't even need to hold it in memory for any operations.
If the same filename could come up more than once, use ">>" instead of ">" to open the files.
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