Hello there.

I am reading one big text file. It contains several lines specifing events. I will use the actual values. Its a combat log from a game I am parsing.

Here is what I want to do, read the whole file, and find the bits where the combat starts, this is working, I match agains /EnterCombat/. 

        foreach my $line (@AR_WHOLE_FILE) {
                if ( $line =~ /EnterCombat/ ) {
                        ( $timestamp ) = split ($line);
                        print $timestamp . "\n";
                        }
                }

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I want to keep parsing the data after the match, untill I find ExitCombat. I want to find all the targets in between EnterCombat and ExitCombat. This is so I can find the 'boss' fights in the game.

I need some hints on how to approach this, I dont know how to continue to parse when I am already parsing by line, so how do I advance while I am already in a foreach loop..

In reply to Split files based on regexp by TonySoprano

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