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Maybe a better option would be to try and split out everything between the message dump: and message dump: Is there a way to say something like 
if($_ =~ /Message Dump:(.*) Message Dump:/)

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And then the whole string would be in something like $1

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Re^7: Matching string, then getting next line
by wazoox (Prior) on Mar 08, 2006 at 15:13 UTC
    You can try to change the line separator $/ to "Message Dump:", then each line would end with "Message Dump:". However the conversion from DOS to Unix line ends is more standard and reusable...
    my @messages;
my $inmessage = 0; # 0 false, 1 true

while ( <FILE> ) {
   s/\r\n$/\n/ ;

   if ( $inmessage) {
      push $_, @messages;
   }

   if ( m/Message Dump:.*/ ) {
      # we set $inmessage to 1 if 0, or 0 if 1
      $inmessage = abs( $inmessage -1 ) ;
}

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      Not sure this is going to work, as it will never find the message i am looking for, should i not be using something like the (.*) so store the contents between Message Dump: and Message Dump:
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        Well if you know what's you're looking for, probably matching it directly would be easier then. 
        my $message;
while (<FILE>) {
   if ( m/\d\d \d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\d .*/ ) {
      $message .= $_
   }
}

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