I need to filter certain parts of an output file out to a summary. I have this which does the trick but sends prints to the screen. How can I output each match to a single file or array without overwriting the previous? 
#!perl.exe

my $filename="out.txt";

if (-r $filename) {

  open(FILE,$filename);
  while(<FILE>) {
    chomp;

    if (/^(.*)Datasource:/) { print "\n\n", $_, "\n"; }

    if (/^(.*)Passed:/) { $section="passed"; next; }
    elsif (/^(.*)Failed:/) { $section="failed"; print $_, "\n"; next; 
+}
    elsif (/^(.*)Exception:/) { $section="except"; print $_, "\n"; nex
+t; }

    if ($section ne "passed") {
      if (/(^(.*)test\.)|(^(.*)Summary:)/) { print $_, "\n"; }
    }
  }
  close(FILE);

} else {
  print("cant read file ",$filename,"\n");
}

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Edit Masem 2001-10-22 - CODE tags
Edit kudra 2001-10-23 - changed title per ntc request

In reply to simple regex question (parsing and saving a file) by Anonymous Monk

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