Hello Monks, I have a text file which contains a lot of information, most of it unimportant. However, there is a block of text that I need to parse which contains information in a tabular format as shown below. 
INFO START

STIME      ETIME     COLUMN3    COLUMN4   COLUMN5
aaaa1      bbb1        ccc1       ddd1      eee1
aaaa2      bbb2        ccc2       ddd2      eee2
aaaa3      bbb3        ccc3       ddd3      eee3
aaaa4      bbb4        ccc4       ddd4      eee4

END

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The sample output should be a table(hash maybe ?) that maps each element to its corresponding row as follows: 
aaaa1:bbb1      ccc1
aaaa1:bbb1      ddd1
aaaa1:bbb1      eee1

aaaa2:bbb2      ccc2
aaaa2:bbb2      ddd2
aaaa2:bbb2      eee2

aaaa2:bbb3      ccc3
aaaa2:bbb3      ddd3
aaaa2:bbb3      eee3

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In reply to Extract table from a block of text by reaper9187

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