Hello fellow monkeys, I am new to perl scripting and I have spent 6 hours trying to write a script that would prase a nagios services.cfg file. One variable in the services.cfg file called "services_description" is missing in many definitions, some do have them set, the definition always start with definition{ and ends with }. I was doing line by line with many if's to go thru the 30 thousand lines text file,but still not working :( Anyways here is the example of the file... 
define service{

        use                             sam_win_cpu_load

        host_name                       buo.va.com

        contact_groups                  buo_admins

}
define service{

        use                             generic-service

        host_name                       buo.va.com

        service_description             MS SQL Server

        check_command                   check_service_state!MSSQLSERVE
+R!public

        contact_groups            buo_admins

}

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When the service_definition dosent exist I have a subroutine that parses the use and just remove the sam from it and returns... (that is the easy part) Should I put entire file into an array, split it? Any ideas are very very welcome

p.s. i can paste my ugly code if anyone wants... thanks,

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