Greetings all,
I'm writing a code parser of very simple proportions (thusly why I'm not using any CPAN modules). My solution works perfectly, but its very long winded and I'm sure there's a tidier (read: Short but preferably not obfu) method of doing it.
The code is separated into sections, each headered with something like ";section1". The object of the code is to place each section (minus its header) into individual arrays. Thusly: 
my $section = 0;  my @sectone;  my @secttwo;
while(<TEXTFILE>) {
    if (/;section1/) {
        $section = 1;
    } elsif (/;section2/) {
        $section = 2;
    } else {
        if ($section == 1) {
            push(@sectionone, $_);
        } elsif ($section == 2) {
            push(@sectiontwo, $_);
        } else {
            print "No section defined for: $_\n";
            }
        }
    }

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There has to be a nicer way! :)

JP,
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

In reply to Tidier and more efficient parsing code by JPaul

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