Hey all, I have a report that has three different sections that I need to split up and then make spreadsheets out of. I need to pull data out of the report, from one point to another, three separate times. ex - The report has info for three different regions. The different areas of the report begin with the words "REGION" followed by a region number and name. The info for the particular region ends with a line containing the words "REGION TOTAL". What I need to do is collect the info between "REGION" and "REGION TOTAL" and save it into a separate array for later processing. I need to do this for each region in the report or three times... however you like to say it. I can succesfully test for and grab the line that begins with "REGION". How do I grab the info up to and including the "REGION TOTAL" line? Here is what I have so far: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
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use strict;

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my $past_file = "pastinv.txt";
open(PFILE,"$past_file") || die "$past_file,$!";
my @pinv1 = <PFILE>;
close PFILE || die "$past_file,$!";


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my @tmp_pinv = "@pinv1";
my $count = @pinv1;
my ($i,@sue,@mike,@steve);

for ($i = 0; $i<= $count -1; $i++) {
        my $line = shift(@pinv1);
        chomp $line;
        if ( $line =~ /Region/ ) {
              $line =~ s/\s+/ /g;
              my($region,$reg_num,@name) = split(/ /,$line);
                if ( $reg_num =~ /(7A)/ ) {
                     unshift(@steve,$region,$reg_num,@name);
                     print "@steve\n";
                     #region_info(\@steve,\@tmp_pinv);
                }elsif ( $reg_num == 7 ) {
                     unshift(@sue,$region,$reg_num,@name);
                     print "@sue\n";
                }elsif ( $reg_num == 8 ) {
                     unshift(@mike,$region,$reg_num,@name);
                     print "@mike\n";
                        }
        }else{
                next;
                }
        }

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This is the code I'm using to grab lines that have the region numbers in them. The line that has the sub region_info was one of my many attempts at accomplishing what I'm trying to do here. If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Bradley Where ever there is confusion to be had... I'll be there.

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