Hi, I'm not sure if my title is very accurate for what I'm trying to achieve but I couldn't think of a better way to articulate it.

I have with route information that I want to split into an array with each element contain one route entry. However some route entries are multiline.

For Example:

C AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD 255.255.255.224 is directly connected, INTERFACENAME

O E1 WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ 255.255.224.0

110/112 via AAA.BBB.DDD.EEE, 696:56:46, INTERFACENAME

I would like to split into....

VAR1 = 'C AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD 255.255.255.224 is directly connected, INTERFACENAME'

VAR2 = 'O E1 WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ 255.255.224.0

110/112 via AAA.BBB.DDD.EEE, 696:56:46, INTERFACENAME'

I was thinking maybe I could split on '\n' and then join certain elements if they match the 'VAR2' format like above? Or can someone think of a better way?

Many thanks

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