I'm not sure if someone had posted something that separate the set of line of text and save to it's respective file.

My next step is: everytime I see same city name like Miami. I would have to grab this chunk of lines and move this to miami.txt

I can search by patterns but it looks like that won't be enough since I need the whole chunk until another header comes up. 

                        FLORIDA 
         Inventory Report   CITY: Orlando     Page1 
111    Item1                      $1000 
222    Item2                      $2000 
449    Item3                      $9999
                         FLORIDA
         Inventory Report   CITY: Miami     Page2
349    Item1                      $3050
224    Item2                      $2340
982    Item3                      $9029
                        FLORIDA
         Inventory Report   CITY: Miami     Page2
349    Item1                      $3050
224    Item2                      $2340
982    Item3                      $9029

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