I guess what I really need to know more than the hash or arrays because thats used primarily for storing values is how to tell the script that if it finds the line I want to print it. I haven't been able to do that because it's always on different lines, and I can't use "$_" for a pattern match because the only way I can get it to print is to print "$_" and I haven't figured out how to say if you match this line print it. I can't say if you match this text on this line print it because the text is on different lines sometimes.

To make this work I was thinking of using OR's, such as: 
If ($lines[2] =~ "radioChannelProperty") {
print "$lines[2]"; 
OR
if ($lines[3] =~ "radioChannelProperty") {
print "$lines[3]";
OR
etc...

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That's what I really, REALLY need to figure out. I can read on how to construct the arrays and hashes and stuff but as to do the above I have no clue. I haven't tried what I put up there because I think that PERL would laugh at me that was just to give you an example of what I was looking at for desired effect.
The Brassmonk

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Non-fixed data in record by brassmon_k
in thread Non-fixed data in record by brassmon_k

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