Well, I'm not sure on the specifics of what your data looks like, but something like this ought to work:

my $currentRegion = '';
my %regions = ();

while (<FILE>) {
    chomp;

    /REGION (\d+) (.+)/ and do {

        $currentRegion = $1;
        $regions{$currentRegion}{Name} = $2;
        next;
    };

    /REGION TOTAL (.+)/ and do {
        
        $regions{$currentRegion}{Total} = $1;
        $currentRegion = '';
        next;
    };

    do {
        push @{$regions{$currentRegion}{Data}}, $_ if $currentRegion n
+e '';
        next;
    };
}

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You now have a hash of the regions. you can then just call each region that belongs to each person like this:

# steve's regions (some added guessed region numbers for demonstration
+):

foreach my $region ( @regions{ '7A', '8A', '9A' } ) {

    #do stuff to each $region that belongs to steve...
}

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In reply to Re: Report parsing by AidanLee
in thread Report parsing by Dalin

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