UPDATE: Before anyone could reply, I had managed
to figure this out on my own! I was able
to extract words between two key words and
get the last word in a line (reverse) to
form a new sentence.

RCP

Took awhile to get back to Jay..but it did work the second
time around....Thanks again.
I have a similar extraction request but with a twist,
as I'm trying to extract data between any two key words,
using a keyword to find a particular sentence.

Data: (contains several lines of data)
Board Name: just a test run Department: my1234
open (FILEH, "/tmp/aform");
while (<FILEH>) {
chomp;
open(MYOUTFILE, ">>/tmp/new_form");

 if ( /Department/ ) {  
      $bname =~ /^Board Name:(.+)Department/;

 print MYOUTFILE "$bname'\n";
    }
 close(FILEH);
 close(MYOUTFILE);

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I'm trying to get it to output only "just a test run"
to a file, but all I get is an error. How can I
also extract only the last word (my1234) from the same line?
error message I got...
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//)
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string
Thanks... RCP

In reply to Re^4: extracting data from a line by RCP
in thread extracting data from a line by RCP

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