Greetings to the perl monks, I seek your wisdom. I have some text files that I need to convert to a .csv, but there is a small twist to it. The file in in the following format. 
heading1:
text1
text2
text3
.
.
.
heading2:
text1
text2
text3
.
.

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and so on. Oh, and yes, the colons after the headings are part of the data. I need to encode the file with the text lines under heading1 to be together, and then under heading2 to be together and so on, however, I need to keep the CRLF at the end of the text lines. The lines are not a fixed length. I was heading towards something that would parse the file by pattern matching for the headings, but wasn't sure how to pull out the data between the headings. My goal for this is the import this file into a table where the fields names are the same as the header names, and then the multiple lines are the data in the fields. I hope that makes sense, any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bentov

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