in reply to Reading chunks of text

Maybe this? (untested)

while(my $line = <$fd>) { $line =~ /^Window/ ? push (@para, $line) : ($para[$#para] .= $line); }

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}