Hello monks! I am hoping you can help me with trying to parse information out of a data file. The file is a plain text file and the formats looks somethign the following: 
!Data.
$
1-11-ABC22 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo Bar Foo Bar

2-15-ABC33 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo Bar Foo Bar
--
1-11-ABC33 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo bar Foo Bar
--
1-11-ABC33 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo abr Foo bar
Foo Bar
Foo Bar
Foo Bar
--
2-15-ABC45 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo Bar Foo Bar

3-33-ABC15 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar

!Data
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Each entry I am trying to parse out starts with the d-dd-ABCdd line and I basically need the lines below it until the next entry starts. So examples of what I am trying to parse out are: 
1-11-ABC22 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo Bar Foo Bar

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And... 
1-11-ABC33 (12:12)   ABC 12 Foo Bar Foo Bar
Foo abr Foo bar
Foo Bar
Foo Bar
Foo Bar
--

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etc... It would be easy enough to just split on lines that starts with a \n or a --, but the -- is part of the entry that I need to retain. Any ideas on how a good way to parse out this information? I appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks!

Prime

In reply to Help Parsing a Text File by PrimeLord

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